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I hope heaven has mud
A new heaven and a new earth. A world like a garden. With dew and pot-plants and cathedrals and grass. Not less real but more real, fuller, more fleshed out than this one. A tangible world with thoughts and time and relationships and bodies.
I want sunrises! Bread! Clay! Open and utterly and ridiculously unspoilt worship of our creator! Running! Dancing! Life and life to the full!
These and much more. A real, visceral, Godly paradise. Sure, the old order of things will pass away, but we do not just look forward to that. We look forward to the making of everything new!
In the epic of gilgamesh timber is a priceless commodity. The end goal of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's journey is venturing into the woods to, after killing a god, gather timber.
Like, it's just wild to me how to their imagination the most heroic thing a couple of demigods could get up to isn't winning a war or fighting a dragon or killing a god, its gathering building materials!
It just says so much about how hostile nature was back then and the impact it had on their culture
Celtic Christianity so so cool!
"They are unusual people: dedicated, and full of the Holy Spirit. They are also sometimes anti-social, quirky, and plain obstinate. They love remote islands, where they can contemplate the Creator through the creation - sun, moon and stars, winds and frost, mountains and seas and forest, birds and fish and great seals. They bless freely, and they curse freely. They lived plainly, and prayed much."
-Prof. Kathleen Jones on the Celtic Saints
Definitely my favourite flavour of christianity.
To My Sceptic Friends
I think people sometimes approach Christian philosophy dismissively because they assume that Christian philosophy isn't taken seriously by very clever and informed people, and therefore they need not bother being clever or informed about it themselves. This would explain, for example, why so many people prematurely dismiss Christianity on scientific, logical, or philosophical grounds: They find one objection, one reasonable question for which the faith must answer, and they assume no Christian has ever thought about it before. There is no good answer - they have encountered an idea no Christian could adequately explain, probably one no Christian has even tried to explain or really thought about before. (After all, if it were not so, why do all the purportedly intelligent people not take it seriously?) So, they never get to the bottom of issues. They ask questions, and then stop reading. From their worldview, it would be silly to think that there might actually be an answer. They don't expect an answer, so often they don't seek it - they're satisfied with just the question. I think this is why in my discussions with sceptics, I, even in my relative ignorance, can often provide more answers than they expect or have considered. Perhaps it would do much good if we could shift this perception, meaning people approach doubts and questions with the assumption that there is usually a great deal of considered thought behind the doubt or question they have, and that if they look into it they could find satisfactory answers. I think this is one of the key differences between the Christian thinker and the sceptic: the sceptic expects only questions, the Christian thinker expects there to be answers, and finds them.