Easter and The Two Trees

Nick Cave once sang “I don’t believe in an interventionist God, but if I did…” We live in a culture that has dismissed God but has left a God-shaped hole behind. The triumphant claim of the so-called New Atheists of the first decade of this century that “religion ruins everything” has given way to something much more like’s Nietzsche’s cry that “God is dead, and we have killed him.” Not a cry of triumph at all, but something much more ambivalent. We have killed God - but what have we replaced God with?

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