Sky Daddy Cult

A fascinating realm to explore.It looks to me as if all the major world religions have developed ways to accommodate the tension between the sublimity and intimacy of the divine. We are asked to feel both a sense of awe and a sense of personal contact. A view that emphasizes the first exclusively leads people to believe the divine is always far away and that no one cares. A view that emphasizes the latter exclusively leads people to feel the divine is knowable--even ordinary--and that no place exists for reverence or mystery.The healthiest religions seem to balance the idea that the holy is beyond you and over all, that the holy is alongside you--as real as your neighbour--and that the holy is close to you, even inside you. The Trinity image in traditional Christianity, for example, gives a place to each idea.____