My CMS The View from a New City

I have not had a near death experience. But watching many of them on the internet has reinforced in me the following theological thesis: Faith, hope and charity is…I have faith that God is powerful enough to fulfill His promises. I hope that I will qualify for his blessings. I feel that the people I know will also qualify for his blessings and should be treated as if they will. This thesis came to me as I watched a steady stream of people walk past my New York City apartment twenty-four hours a day and I realized they had all shouted for joy when they first learned that earth life was in the offing even though very few of them now know anything about that moment and its plan as they walk along the street below my window.

This understanding of faith, hope and charity is very far from the “I’m saved and your damned” theology of some religious people. It is also the opposite of the Nietzschean philosophy that only the “superman” counts for anything. All other humans are only the mush out of which the “Uebermensch” rises.