tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post1549589163119378615..comments2023-05-19T07:30:00.903-05:00Comments on Lost in the Underground: Will God's Children Grow Up?WordKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13155725542014595709noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5780216905224068835.post-67600415252761002182007-06-24T22:36:00.000-05:002007-06-24T22:36:00.000-05:00I would perhaps hesitate to go so far as to say th...<I>I would perhaps hesitate to go so far as to say that God must die in order for humans to grow up and become citizens rather than children</I><BR/><BR/>My personal tendency would be to say rather that the process of "becoming citizens rather than children" is the lesson of the expulsion from Eden. There's a nostalgia to it, this sense that the world was paradise once, before we knew all of what was in it.<BR/><BR/>I think that that loss of what-is-called-innocence can feel, at times, like a loss or death of the Divine.Dw3t-Hthrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584245136407694660noreply@blogger.com