Meeting with God does not come to man in order for him to concern himself with God, but in order for him to confirm that there is meaning in the world. But again and again man wishes to concern himself with God instead of attention to the world. Just as the self-seeking man, instead of directly living – misses the truth and instead of allowing the gift of life to work itself out reflects about the Giver – and misses both. Reflection makes God just into an object. Dogmatism and literalism (reduction or elimination of meaning of connotation) that is going with dogmatism, distract pop-Christians from the possibility of having spiritual experience with the world. They “believe” instead of living spiritually.
Martin Buber, “I and Thou”