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On the Turmoil of Many Religions
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BOOK WORLD
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9 / 1986 |
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Czeslaw Milosz
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God is dead.
- Nietzsche.
Nietzsche is dead.
- God.
Inscription on a poster in Berkeley, California
Only God can save me, because in ascending to him I rise above myself, and my true essence is not in me but above me. Like a spider I am climbing a thread, and that thread, beyond any doubt mine alone, is fastened at the point I came from and at the point where a Thus resides addressing me as Thou. What is called the rebirth of religion in America is not subject to the rules that apply to pre-industrial agricultural communities; neither would it be much understood by those cheerless atheists, religious fanatics turned inside out, who in so many countries oppress simple people for wanting to teach their children to make the sign of the cross. Besides, the ambiguity of the secondhand ideas now in circulation is so great that their very chaos should invite analysis; there are, however, obstacles, and such analysis is rare, so, in keeping with my purpose, I am venturing into the unclear, where one can move only by blind feel.
God everywhere, like the products for daily hygiene and medications, God on the dollar, In God We Trust, the national God, guarantor of the established order, helping those who believe in him, multiplying their sheep and camels, or their machines, punishing non-believers, demanding a choice: either with him or against him, and favoring a division of people - we the decent, they the godless. The wealth of nations and individuals is the
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