Post-Modernism is the period when it became apparent that science was not the answer to human suffering and people began to search.
We rejected the moralizing and authoritarian approach of the Churches and began looking at eastern religions, ancient mythology, yoga, astrology, tarot etc..
Without knowing what we were looking for we vaguely aspired to some answer that was connected with the Divine.
This is spirituality not religion.
Not wanting to go inside a church for fear of being indoctrinated or castrated we searched in vain.
When, in the end, I returned to the Church through Progressive Christianity I found by following the teaching of Jesus to love God and love your neighbor that God is a God of love and forgiveness.
The angry, punitive God of the Old Testament and the old Churches is a projection of earthly authority figures and not the reality at all.
God is transcendent, sublime, non-violent, even small.....
He will not reject you.
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Perhaps God's wrath burns against injustice, and fearing God means to refuse to collude with empire.
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