Specters of God Quotes

“The task is not to explain the being of the world but to interpret our place in the world based upon what we know about the world at the time, which is what is what the authors of the scriptures were doing and why we have to start all over again in every new age.”
― John D. Caputo, Specters of God: An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination

“Today, religion in the empirical sense—the word and the thing—is more and more the recourse of the reactionary, the resentful, the undereducated, the anti-scientific, an alibi for white supremacism and sexism, packing its guns, standing its ground against immigrants and people who look different, instead of welcoming “the widow, the orphan, and the stranger,” as the prophets enjoin.”
― John D. Caputo, Specters of God: An Anatomy of the Apophatic Imagination