John - as a Unitarian - observes the widening credibility gap between fundamentalist, dogmatic certainty about God and scientific understandings and explanations premised on Heisenberg uncertainty. He identifies the contribution of Christianity to Western Civilisation as part of our rich Christian heritage - teachings that have shaped human conduct and ethics, magnificent cathedrals, iconography (through art - in all its forms) and religious music that have shaped Western Civilisation, governance and culture. It has also been our Unitarian heritage.
But was this what Jesus had in mind? Jesus would have preferred his "cathedrals" to be in human hearts and minds rather than in powerful institutions. He suggests that the growing cognitive dissonance between Faith and Science is causing Christians to reconsider Church dogma regarding perceptions of God, formed over the past two millennia that have now dated. He rejects the traditional notion of an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God and outlines instead his personal construct, informed by science - of what "God" and "Divinity" mean to him.
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