The replacement of devout symbolism at Christmas with anodyne commercialism reflects a wider trend,and is a threat to social valuesNick Cohen wonders how we talk about human values when traditional devout language loses significance (“In losing religion we lose touch with each other”, final week). In the 20th century, or theologian Daphne Hampson argued that after Christianity,we must find ways of talking about God in the language of our day, as Jesus of Nazareth and others did in theirs. She isn’t the only feminist thinker to be undervalued.
If all language about God is figurative, or this surely includes the word God. Nowadays,“God” seems like a proper noun, a personal name. The word can be an obstacle to recognising what is sacred to human beings.
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Source: guardian.co.uk