10 Part Scale of Ex-Christianity according to Andrew Wilson

1. James Boswell, professing to be a Christian and realising that it is now an option rather than a requisite
2. Immanuael Kant and others who want relgion within the bounds of reason
3. Rousseau and other advocates of civil religion
4. Benjamin Franklin, David Hume and other irenic Deists
5. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and others who oscillate between being irenic and polemic
6. Voltaire and other polemic Deists
7. Franz Anton Mesmer and others who pursued their own paths
8. Diderot, d'Holbach and other combative atheists
9. The cult of reason followers who led the French Revolution
10. The Marquis de Sade and other God haters

See page 143 of Remaking the world

Day Off Week 39 2021

 

So there was the usual walking and coffee. I read a big chunk of Andrew Wilson's very readable God of all things which I really enjoyed. It is well written, slightly quirky (I loved the way he managed to slip in the invention of Bovril for example) and good biblical theology always heading for Christ. There were quite af ew things I'd never really picked up on such as the superiority of tools over weapons in God's economy. I also spent time catching up on notes for my daily Bible readings, which I'v egot rather behind on.