#don cupitt

[klampersonlighed]

As I got older I have become more and more a person commited to writing books, expressing myself, producing language, mingling with others, getting devoted to my grandchildren and so on. I now think that I love the human enterprise more and more, I am getting more and more sociable. In which case I am inclined to equate god with life and just commitment to life and enjoyment of life.

Don cupitt on non-realism about god.

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'To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.' -Don Cupitt | Go to Sendable Quotes to view more motivational quotes and inspirational images.

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'To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.' -Don Cupitt | Click here to download more image quotes

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'To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.' -Don Cupitt | See more daily motivational quotes at Jar of Quotes.

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[unclewaynemunson]

If indeed there is no One Great Truth out there to serve as the basis for a future worldwide common human religious consciousness, and indeed there is no One True Morality out there either... there may be a number of subjective truths. In which case, surely one can be happy to see the three thousands or so NRMs, the thousand or so New Age groups, and the hundreds of sects of the various major faiths that are all flourishing, teeming, in Western countries today. If their beliefs work out well for them, then their beliefs are true for them; and since there is no independent Truth out there, and all of us are entirely free to build our worlds in the ways that seem best to us, we have no basis for calling other people's worlds irrational. Let a hundred flowers bloom!

Don Cupitt

[rainbowtwo]

Look to Life

‘I don’t believe we should look to any metaphysical order on the far side of experience not to any metaphysical subject on the near side of experience but simply, as it were, to life.’

- Don Cupitt. The Eclectic Cleric.

[puckstein]

So we may say that a myth is typically a traditional sacred story of anonymous authorship and archetypal or universal significance which is recounted in a certain community and is often linked with a ritual; that it tells of the deeds of superhuman beings such as gods, demigods, heroes, spirits or ghosts; that it is set outside historical time in primal or eschatological [i.e. last, ultimate] time or in the supernatural world, or may deal with comings and goings between the supernatural world and the world of human history; that the superhuman beings are imagined in anthropomorphic [i.e. humanly formed] ways, although their powers are more than human and often the story is not naturalistic but has the fractured, disorderly logic of dreams; that the whole body of a people’s mythology is often prolix [i.e. lengthy, wordy], extravagant and full of seeming inconsistencies; and finally that the work of myth is to explain, to reconcile, to guide action or to legitimate. We can add that myth-making is evidently a primal and universal function of the human mind as it seeks a moreor-less unified vision of the cosmic order, the social order, and the meaning of the individual’s life. Both for society at large and for the individual, this story-generating function seems irreplaceable. The individual finds meaning in his life by making of his life a story set within a larger social and cosmic story. (Cupitt 1982: 29)

Laurence Coupe - Myth (citing Don Cupitt’s proposal on how to define what a myth is; he proposes that a myth is defined by exhibiting most, but not necessarily all, the above cited features, as opposed to any set definition which would inevitably favor one kind of narrative over others)