Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring it among the most vital and radical expressions of the human mind. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion.
And without big donors like Mike Rinder, they make movies like American Heretics: The Politics of the Gospel on a budget of $700,000, start to finish, for release in three theaters this week, and seven more in the coming months.Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann.
There is a significant religious left, but in general they're not as vocal and visible as the rightists, perhaps because they don't feel the same mandate to win converts. And because, even in a dream, God-made-man can only appear as Jesus Christ, per the literalist take, this made it bad. "Faith-based" films take great care never to include elements that would put off the televangelist set, because every once in a while you get a movie like The Shack which, while devoutly pro-God, depicts God appearing as three different human beings in the main character's dream. You're not going to find a John Shelby Spong book in most supposed Christian bookstores, but it's a near-certainty they'll be stocked up with Dr.
When Americans talk about "Christian movies" or "Christian bookstores" or "Christian media" or anything like that, it's a sad statement that what they actually mean, mostly, by "Christian," is right-wing evangelical literalism. Women priests ought not to be that radical an idea.
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