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Chargement... Tot hier heeft de Heer ons geholpen : over godsbeelden en goed gedrag (2007)par Herman VuijsjeAucun Chargement...
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My main problem with the book is that the ironical style of the writer suffocates the interesting story he is trying to tell. He also makes an error many others make: the application to the whole of society of arguments which for me are only valid in a small elitist layer of society. A prime example is his use of the holocaust as a cause for the diminished role of god in society, and the loss of credibility of religion as a source of morality. In the first place the role of god started to slide long before the advent of Hitler, in the second place I fear that for most Dutch people the fate of the Jews and other prosecuted groups wasn't a heavy burden on their consciences: for a short moment they felt pity, then they went on with their daily life, happy to have escaped themselves alive.
One point he makes about christian religion I find rather interesting. From the 16th century onwards protestant theologians have been battling about redemption: can we redeem ourselves (by doing good in our lives), or does god already decides before birth if we go to heaven or hell. He shows that the first position - most popular nowadays, even with people who are only marginally religious - degrades charity in a way: it becomes something you do to get something: you strike a deal with god, bribe him with good deeds. While the second position enables you to do good in a disinterested way, just for the doing of good things itself.
Another quite intersting point he makes is that although religion seems on the rise in current Dutch society, it is a kind of cherry-picking variant which he calls 'ietsism' (best translated as: 'there-must-be-something'). People want to believe something, but only nice things: everybody goes to heaven, there is no hell. The idea that a belief in god also brings duties - for instance conforming to rules or morality - is less popular than ever. ( )