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To read some “thinkers”, some philosophers, or those of differing defining philosophical attitudes consecutively – without sufficient pause, in facr inner distance – is not like eating a different food on a plate, but like eating im-mediatly in a different country. Time for travel is realistically most often needed.

Since this month ten years ago, when I spent a summer month in Weimar from Moscow, I have wondered about Herder’s “Christianity”. Just a while ago, reading on Herder on Luther, I recognized how official “Weimar Christianity” was more “menschlich”. Luther’s sola fides and man as inherently sinful were not accepted. (NB: Billy Grahams home is about 30 miles away.)

Surprising yet informing how much less the deeply influential Paul’s believed lRome life locations are visited compared to Peter’s.

The “Christianity/ies” of sarc.

The “Christianity/ies” of psyche.

The “Christianity/ies” of pneuma.

“Man” (mens-): the creature which imagines its eternities are not passing.

No man is an individual entire of itself; every man is a piece of the mass, a part of the main;…

Absicht: Egal wie ignoriert und unbekannt ich bin, ich werde (weiter m)ein ernstes Leben führen.

15 November 1813, Adams to Jefferson: “You very justly indulge a little merriment upon this Solemn Subject of Aristocracy. I often laugh at it too, for there is nothing in this laughable world more ridiculous than the management of it by almost all the nations of the World Earth. But while We Smile, Mankind have reason to Say to Us, as the froggs Said to the Boys, What is Sport to you, is Wounds and death to Us. When I consider the weakness, the folly, the Pride, the Vanity, the Selfishness, the Artifice, the low craft and mean Cunning the want of Principle, the Avarice the unbounded Ambition, the unfeeling Cruelty of a majority of those (in all Nations) who are allowed an Aristocratical influence; and on the other hand, the Stupidity with which the more numerous multitude, not only become their Dupes, but even love to be taken in by their Tricks: I feel a Stronger disposition to weep at their destiny, than to laugh at their Folly.”

What great traumas – and realities of life and world– of history are ignorable because unknown in the blithestyle of the American “middle class”?

In a time of life crisis, at a moment of life choice, Billy Graham chose to avoid — to ignore — centuries of intellect and thought, and to turn all of the substance of human history into a moment of religious repentance. And millions worldwide followed.