Ten Minutes for the Proposition "God is"

Abstract

When we say ‘God exists’, we grapple with having our center outside ourselves. The proposition is not a theory about the universe which cancels our anxiety by securing for us a stable place in the cosmos. The proposition ‘God exists’ is a way of reconciling ourselves to a fundamental insecurity; we are always in the place of Othello. We must either depend on a word given to us, even in the absence of any external guarantee, or else we refuse this word and destroy ourselves.