4/29/2023 0 Comments Diogenes allen![]() You do not need to endorse Sartre’s claim to recognize the resentment we would feel at having a boss, a ruler or anyone else telling us what to do all the time. So the very idea of God reduces people to slavery and is essentially antihuman. To be human is to be free, to be autonomous. Jean-Paul Sartre, like so many in our culture who want to be in personal control of their lives, claimed that the two notions-freedom and God-contradict each other. How can people be free if they have a master? How can people be free if they have someone to obey? This claim is also made about religious institutions and teachings.Īt the core of the Christian life is the fact that people have a Lord, someone to whom they belong and to whom they are obedient. This means, in turn, that all social hierarchies are based on domination by the most powerful groups in various societies. ![]() Today it is commonly said, especially by those who endorse a postmodernist creed, that all values and meaning are human or cultural projections. Jesus is a different kind of lord: he does not need followers. Current articles and subscription information can be found at This article prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation used by permission. ![]() This article appeared in the Christian Century, March 18-25, pp. This article is excerpted from his contribution to The Truth about Jesus, edited by Donald Armstrong III and published this month (March, 1998) by Eerdmans. Diogenes Allen teaches philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary.
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