“Does this mean that all we have is a cruel choice between a stern, choosy, punishing transcendent God-Father-Sky who, in addition, is universally valid and demands undivided faith, but does see much chance for peace in this world; and a soft God (even Gods)-as-substance permeating us all, but only for one particular group? No, it all depends on what we emphasize in our experience of/with God. It is all for us to create, to construct. Religion has not been revealed once and for all.
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It is for us to emphasize and create ideologies that are both soft, uniting, peaceful, world-encompassing, yet pluralist.” Johan Galtung,
Religions, Hard and Soft (x)
