Weekly Pause & Ponder

…our human role is not about controlling or directing the whole creative enterprise, but listening and attending to the ongoing revelation. Our primary task is not to dominate life, but to celebrate it – in love and justice. The late Karl Rahner suggested that God reveals in accordance with our capacity to receive revealed truth (wisdom). If we ourselves continue to play God, to manipulate the will-to-power totally and solely in anthropomorphic terms, then little wonder that we live in such a godless world. The central religious problem of our time is that most of our religious Gods are false ones, alien to and alienated from the meaning of life and evolution.

Diarmuid O’Murchu, Our World in Transition, p. 154.