I think I know which churches you might be thinking of. But theywhen I think of churches, those aren't the churches I think of. I think that without randomness there could be no miracles and there could be no mystery. I think it was GK Chesterton, the Anglo-Catholic writer, who pointed out that the tendency for scientific systems to be almost-but-not-quite-perfect enables us to better envisage a God who is not subject to our systematic understandings, but who does as he pleases.
Many MBA type people also note that without the impact of advertising miracles, the ancient scriptures would fall into oblivion. Certainly Resurrection is the ultimate impact advertisement.
Either way, it's got huge impact. The Egyptian Pharos told the slaves building the pyramids that they were building a resurrection machine, and that he would return after his death to save them from a permanent death. Wow, talk about impact. They worked like demons.
It is not whether people rise from the dead, or not. It's the impact of the idea. People fucking love victory over death. Procreative sex is victory over death. Zombie horror movies with open graves are victory over death. Frozen bodies to be resuscitated in future centuries are victory over death. Eucharistic celebrations are victory over death. All life on Planet Earth strives to replicate into eternity.
What the fuck? Please don't be shallow. Don't you see the primal urgency of this need? If you don't, you are no salesman for God. Nor, will you ever understand cultural anthropology. Nor, will the meaning of survival and your own primal instincts become known to you. I hope you see that in centuries to come, Planet Earth will become a factory to design and distribute forms of life customized for the nearly infinite variety of microcosms in our galaxy. Immortality is the ultimate imperative!
I see the primal urgency. But the fact that it is primal does not mean that the belief was fabricated. That urgency, that longing for immortality could equally have been put in us because immortality is what we were meant for - like our primal need for love.
Of course it does not mean it was fabricated. Any life form that does not have this primal urgency (from proto-cells on up) likely died eons ago. Darwinian selection is likely the largest contributing factor albeit not the only factor.
Well, I'm glad the evolution of the species was engineered in such a way as to retain it: God is eternal, and the imprint and 'signature' of the eternal one who made us, would seem to be stamped through us like a stick of rock, like a metaphysical 'gene'. It is fitting that of all things to remain eternally constant throughout the evolution of the species, should be the innate awareness of and striving for eternity itself. It is like, looking into a mirror, we see and recognise our own reflection.
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I think I know which churches you might be thinking of. But theywhen I think of churches, those aren't the churches I think of. I think that without randomness there could be no miracles and there could be no mystery. I think it was GK Chesterton, the Anglo-Catholic writer, who pointed out that the tendency for scientific systems to be almost-but-not-quite-perfect enables us to better envisage a God who is not subject to our systematic understandings, but who does as he pleases.
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Only if it didn't actually happen ;-)
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Either way, it's got huge impact. The Egyptian Pharos told the slaves building the pyramids that they were building a resurrection machine, and that he would return after his death to save them from a permanent death. Wow, talk about impact. They worked like demons.
It is not whether people rise from the dead, or not. It's the impact of the idea. People fucking love victory over death. Procreative sex is victory over death. Zombie horror movies with open graves are victory over death. Frozen bodies to be resuscitated in future centuries are victory over death. Eucharistic celebrations are victory over death. All life on Planet Earth strives to replicate into eternity.
What the fuck? Please don't be shallow. Don't you see the primal urgency of this need? If you don't, you are no salesman for God. Nor, will you ever understand cultural anthropology. Nor, will the meaning of survival and your own primal instincts become known to you. I hope you see that in centuries to come, Planet Earth will become a factory to design and distribute forms of life customized for the nearly infinite variety of microcosms in our galaxy. Immortality is the ultimate imperative!
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I see the primal urgency. But the fact that it is primal does not mean that the belief was fabricated. That urgency, that longing for immortality could equally have been put in us because immortality is what we were meant for - like our primal need for love.
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Well, I'm glad the evolution of the species was engineered in such a way as to retain it: God is eternal, and the imprint and 'signature' of the eternal one who made us, would seem to be stamped through us like a stick of rock, like a metaphysical 'gene'. It is fitting that of all things to remain eternally constant throughout the evolution of the species, should be the innate awareness of and striving for eternity itself. It is like, looking into a mirror, we see and recognise our own reflection.
That comment, my friend, was a masterpiece.