"Thou" would be a form of direct address, but the
question here is to find a "pronoun" that would allow one to speak
appropriately about the, at least, imagined "Being" that is called
"God".
50+. "Ach, es ist schwer, diese Gottesspur zu finden inmitten dieses Lebens, das wir fuhren, inmitten dieser so sehr zufriedenen, so sehr bürgerlichen, so sehr geistlosen Zeit, im Anblick dieser Architekturen, dieser Geschäfte, dieser Politik, dieser Menschen. Wie sollte ich nicht ein Steppenwolf und ruppiger Eremit sein inmitten einer Welt, von deren Zielen ich keines teile, von deren Freude keine zu mir spricht?" -- from Hesse's Steppenwolf
Thursday, July 5, 2012
is "God" an "It"?
if a person would speak of "God", as a being, an
entity, which one speaks about, but one does not want to use "It",
nor the traditional "He", not the equalizing "She", then
how is one to speak of "God". "It" just does not seem
right, and the other two are limited by our human condition.
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