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I Don't Like Religion Much, And I Am Glad That In The Bible The Word Is Not To Be Found.

When I Confront A Human Being As My Thou And Speak The Basic Word I-thou To Him, Then He Is No Thing Among Things Nor Does He Consist Of Things. He Is No Longer He Or She, A Dot In The World Grid Of Space And Time, Nor A Condition To Be Experienced And Described, A Loose Bundle Of Named Qualities. Neighborless And Seamless, He Is Thou And Fills The Firmament. Not As If There Were Nothing But He; But Everything Else Lives In His Light.

What Has To Be Given Up Is Not The I, But That Drive For Self-affirmation Which Impels Man To Flee From The Unreliable, Unsolid, Unlasting, Unpredictable, Dangerous World Of Relation Into The Having Of Things.

To Produce Is To Draw Forth, To Invent Is To Find, To Shape Is To Discover.

How Would Man Exist If God Did Not Need Him, And How Would You Exist? You Need God In Order To Be, And God Needs You - For That Is The Meaning Of Your Life.