Beliefs
Ranke-Heinemann is a pacifist. In 1999, to protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, she entered the German presidential election as a candidate of the left-wing PDS, running against her niece's husband, Johannes Rau, who was elected in the end.
After the death of her husband 9.11.2001 she declared her "Departure from traditional Christianity" — though not from Jesus, who said "Blessed are the peacemakers". She added her thoughts about finding her beloved husband after her death to her book "Putting Away Childish Things". Rudolf Bultmann, René Descartes and Immanuel Kant showed her how to be a Christian and to hope for eternal life without sacrifice of her intellect.
Her sevenfold negative creed is the following:
- The Bible is not the word of God but the word of men.
- That God does exist in three persons is imagination of men.
- Jesus is man and not God.
- Mary is the mother of Jesus and not the mother of God.
- God created heaven and earth, hell is a product of human fantasy.
- The devil and original sin do not exist.
- A bloody redemption at the Cross is a pagan sacrificial slaughtering of a human being, based on a model from the religious Stone Age.
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“To a first approximation, the intentional strategy consists of treating the object whose behavior you want to predict as a rational agent with beliefs and desires and other mental states exhibiting what Brentano and others call intentionality.”
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“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
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“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our own standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)