Desmond Tutu: God is Not a Christian

Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote an article about Desmond Tutu's words when he received an unprecedented dual honorary doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University today: "A Grand Reception for Archbishop Tutu." Various opinions about his words are being circulated on the internet, both for and against his belief that God is bigger than the Christian idea of God.

Rodgers writes:

"In his sermon, he poked fun at the belief that only those who accept Jesus as their savior can enter heaven.

"Can you imagine that there are those who think God is a Christian?" he said to laughter from a mostly appreciative audience. "Can you tell us what God was before he was a Christian?"

As Ken Wilber writes in his book Up from Eden, New Edition: A Transpersonal View of Human Evolution, as do others such as Joseph Campbell, those in early humanity worshipped Nature and the Great Mother. It took growth in physical and mental development and development in consciousness for humanity to come to fuller and fuller understandings of God. "Who can understand the mind of God?" How can we even now? It seems like we each have glimpses of the Divine, which we share to know more and learn to love more.


Tutu also asked, "Can anyone say to the Dalai Lama, 'You are a good guy. What a shame you are not a Christian'?"


Read the entire article A Grand Reception for Archbishop Tutu.

Thanks to Susan Russell at An Inch at a Time for directing me to this article. Go to her blog and read her reflections, too.