‘The absolute death of the word “God” including even the eradication of its past, would be the signal, no longer heard by anyone, that man himself had died.' Photo: by Simone Secci on Unsplash
Human interest: Neil Morgan’s Thought for the Week
‘The question of God remains an essential one to ask, whatever answer we want to give.’
In the twenty-first century, many do not take the existence of God as certain. We are, some say, too sophisticated for that. But we have reached a tipping point where it is not God as answer that is at stake, but God as question. The question of God remains an essential one to ask, whatever answer we want to give (and who, after all, can give an answer?). There is a relationship between it and our own humanity – our existence as human beings, rather than just bits of thinking biology.