WhosDead?

[Hitch]

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/God-is-Dead-theologian-William-Hamilton-dead-at-87-3371540.php

 

[handy]

Here is a direct quote from the article:

Hamilton told The Oregonian newspaper in 2007 that he had questioned the existence of God since he was a teenager, when two friends — an Episcopalian and a Catholic — died from the explosion of a pipe bomb they were building, while a third — an atheist — escaped without a scratch.
It caused him to question why the innocent suffer, and whether God intervened in people's lives, he said.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/artic...Hamilton-dead-at-87-3371540.php#ixzz1nta4Xa2k
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So two "Christians" die when a pipe bomb they are making explodes and he wonders why the "innocent" suffer?

(OK...perhaps you have to have lived through the '60's for this to make sense.)


Unfortunately, Hamilton's false prophesies have saturated well into the church... his main "theological" point being that we are to live in the here and now...following Christ's message of social justice, but no belief in any kind of supernatural or eternal life.

Also from the article: "'Hamilton "was what we call a radical Christian, or if you like, an atheistic Christian,' Altizer said from his home in Mount Pocono, Pa. 'He dedicated a good part of his life to renewing, making actual and right now, the way of Jesus.'"

"Atheistic Christian" ...an oxymoron that far too many have embraced.
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[Christ_empowered]

I'm glad I missed out on that era. I've been told by my parents and other boomers that the 60s weren't all fun, protests, and drugs. They say that the 60s were actually pretty frightening to live through, what with everything falling apart and everything.

Anyway, when I read about this guy's death, I automatically thought of a scene from "Rosemary's Baby," in which Mia Farrow--very pregnant with the devil's baby--picks up a copy of Time magazine. The cover says, in bold print, "God is Dead." Of course, the whole point of that creepy (but masterful) film was that even in our modern, sophisticated, post-Christian culture, good and evil are still very real and still duking it out.