Paul Tillich--People in Osho's Talks

Tillich, Paul
1886-1965 79 years

German-American Protestant Christian theologian,
author

born in Germany

father: conservative Lutheran pastor

became a pastor in Germany, trouble with Hitler's Nazi
regime

married 2x

came to the US in 1930s, professor of theology at
universities

considered one of the most influential Protestant
thinkers of the 20th century

Paul Tillich, the Protestant theologian, asserted that
"God will remain somehow remote and `out there,'
unless there is a complete turnabout in which all
references to the high and the beyond are translated
into terms of depth. This infinite and inexhaustible depth
and ground of all beings is God. That depth is what the
word `God' means. He who knows about depth knows
about God."

Paul Tillich and all neo-theologians are trying their
hardest somehow to save God, and there is no way to
save him, he is already dead!

Now he is giving another idea: take God from there
beyond the clouds and put him deep down. But what is
the difference? Deep down where? – in America?
Because from this place, if you go on digging you will
suddenly see, My God! all Americans are walking upside
down. Are they doing shirshasan, headstand? Because
from here you will reach exactly into America – the
shortest way. People are unnecessarily flying ... just dig
a hole! And from both the sides it can be started – from
America towards India, and from India towards America.
And the meeting will happen just in between...

--Osho
I Celebrate Myself: God is No Where, Life is Now Here,
ch. 6