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Danger
” Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?
The tourists are having coffee and doughnuts on Deck C. Presumably someone is minding the ship, correcting the course, avoiding icebergs and shoals, fueling the engines, watching the radar screen, noting weather reports radioed in from shore. No one would dream of asking the tourists to do these things. Alas, among the tourists on Deck C, drinking coffee and eating doughnuts, we find the captain, and all the ship’s officers, and all the ship’s crew. The officer’s chat; they swear; they wink. a bit at slightly raw jokes, just like regular people. The crew members have funny accents. The wind seems to be picking up.
On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.” pg. 52
— Annie Dillard
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“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral…But I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous…more extravagant and bright. We are…raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.”
— Annie Dillard
I am drawn to a much more dangerous religion then I am presently engaged in. I have been lulled into a TV like trance by the cares of the world and like most of the people I know, school has replaced experience.
In High School I took “Family Planning” Class. As a 16 year old I mostly went because the class was primarily populated by girls, including my current wife! Yes, my motivations were not totally pure but they provided the groundwork for what became my primary understanding of God. My subsequent faith and eventually my love of food.
I believe that like what modern pornography is to sex, what passes in some places as the christian religion is often no different in comparison.
During High School “Family planning class” (which was secret code for sex ed.) we watched a movie about the birth of a child. I think I even had to have my mom sign a permission slip because the movie left nothing about the birth to the imagination. After the hour long movie I was sure that I was an expert at human birth. I was just as certain that I was an expert and at the act that made the little humans because of Penthouse.
On January 3, 1979 at midnight my wife began labor and my life changed. I saw, heard, felt, smelled and touched the real thing. Our daughter was born at 3:20 am. From 3:20 until 3:21 am time stood still and I watched the life enter her. Real replaced knowledge.
My life has never been the same.
Do we really realize how dangerous we are? We carry around inside of us the power that breathed the universe into existence. It’s beyond science…
“The Root of Darwinism is Faith
…I ask the academic evolutionist, as I ask the self-proclaimed Christian: do you believe your own ideology enough to act upon it? If you believe that Natural Selection, the laws of Chance, evolved you from an amoeboid to a human being after millions of years, do you think Chance would let you down now? Are you willing to give up control, giving yourself up to Chance that you may witness evolution within your very own being?
“Creationists” often say it takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in their version of creation. I certainly agree.
So, Darwinist, you say that you do not believe we were zapped into existence by a Big Guy in the sky, but that Chance actually formed us from the dust of the earth?
Yes, it surely does take faith to believe in evolution.
It takes zero faith to believe in the “creationist” version of creation.
Belief is not faith. It takes belief, but it takes no faith whatsoever to believe we were zapped into existence by a Big Guy in the Sky. Faith requires action, a change of heart. Belief does not. The “Creation Science” theory requires no action, no change of heart (no repentance). Belief is a part of faith, but belief is not faith.“
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In our Christian effort to control our input and output we have cheated God out of what he wants to do.
Being dangerous is not being in control. It is free falling without a parachute. It’s floating in a tidal wave. It’s ground control to Major Tom.
Can you hear me?
”Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke?“
