No Spinoza Zone

"The act of weak theology has resulted in the notion of the weakness of God. In the body of thought, the paradigm of God an an overwhelming physical or metaphysical force is regarded as mistaken. The old God-of-power is displaced with the idea of God as an unconditional claim without force. As a claim without force, the God of weak theology does not physically or metaphysically intervene in nature. Weak theology emphasizes the responsibility of humans to act in this world here and now. Because God is thought of as weak and as a call, weak theology places an emphasis on the "weak" human virtues of forgiveness, hospitality, openness, and receptivity." 

I try to live my life according to those four tenets, especially openness. I don't live with regard to a particular religion because I don't think God needs a subscription like a magazine. Early christianity had a threefold message of grace, humility, and love. It was meant to get people to live like God, to enter his kingdom. But I say do it regardless of God. If one believes certain things, because one is told that's the way one is supposed to act, it's not really believing. That sort of religion and spirituality is false and should be avoided. I say do these things because you want to do them, because people are inherently good, not bad. Forgive unconditionally, not because the bible says and one obeys, but because one instinctively wants to forgive. I think if we can live like this, without regard, we can accomplish more as a people. Label this thinking as postmodern christianity, or christian existentialism; it's simply gestalt: one's individual decision is more important than the decisions of the whole. The idea of personal choice and responsibility is what I feel is absent from religion. Responsibility may exist, but only in by-product form. What if God can't respond? What if we have to live up to the weak virtues in order to respond, to do the work he can't do? What if through that, and nothing else, we can gain a personal relationship, we can become most God like?