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May 13, 1999

    A comprehended god is no god.
                             ... St. John Chrysostom (345?-407)

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Christian Quotation of the Day

June 20, 1999

    In quite recent times we seem to have entered a
particularly dangerous new phase of anthropological aberration,
namely, a queer combination of nihilism and deification.
Theoretically, man is said to be nothing but an animal with a
highly developed cerebrum.  At the same time, it is believed of
this man that he is capable by science and technical devices of
achieving whatever he wants.  The deification which might have
been thought to be finally overcome, returns as it were from
behind, in the form of a deification of technical creativity to
which not much less than omnipotence is ascribed.  After
mankind has done away with the pseudo-religion of race and
blood, it is faced with the even greater danger of a
technocratical pseudo-religion.  There is no room for human
personality, freedom and justice in either of these new
religions of divine man.  But the most dangerous of all must be
the one which makes man at the same time nothing and God.
           ... Emil Brunner, The Scandal of Christianity [1951]

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