September 10th, 1995
Walt continues to talk about what God means to him. War had a major impact on his views… His mother raising him with a constant “no” on his forehead, being surrounded with people who only said “yes,” struggling with the opportunities of his anonymity, closer ties to his Jewish roommate than others who were evangelical Christians… All of that resulted in real thinking about what God meant… What does it mean to be in the world (sociological) but not of it (theological) – these must be in tension with each other… Being able to have respectful discussion and debate is so critical but so hard… Faith is about both the individual and the collective… Man always demands to define what it means to be faithful (rules)... The first step toward freedom is recognizing what is predetermined by history and tradition and culture and the next step is to rise above it…
