You mentioned this point a few times over the past years, and the more I think about it, the more I think there is something important in it, at least to me. "The mircacle of belief", if one would phrase it pompously, may be even more baffling than "the miracle of there being a god".

To me, there being a deity is not that perplexing. As I don't believe in an afterlife, there is no need for me for an otherworldy transcendent god who, by His very existence, provides the "place" for the soul to persist after the death of her earthly body. Which only means that there is room for a god inside and immanent in the world, not apart or beyond from it.

Even that atheists or agnostics may dispute but to me who believes in the existence of the soul beyond the Aristotelian threefold distiction, that is, as the carrier or instance of moral perception, the soul and her existence is not explained by or reducible to neurons and fluids. Thus, for that simply reason, there needs to be an external source for that "faculty", which is the immanent deity.

Anyway, one may describ or state such ideas pretty easily (as shown), but the belief involved, that is a strange and miraculous aspect. Your afidelity or #afidelism sheds an interesting light on the question whether there can be a theology wthout belief. Lovely.

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