“Thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog!”

Shakespeare | Richard III

 

Religion just won’t go away

https://acculturated.com/good-vs-evil-star-wars-last-jedi/

http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2009/06/religion-in-science-fiction.html

https://acculturated.com/serenity-as-secular-myth-the-future-of-religion-in-science-fiction/

 

There is a battlefield, perhaps (although it is not certain) in the Balkans. Many soldiers have been killed, their bodies lie in shallow graves. An old woman moves across this forlorn landscape stooping every so often. I realise she is planting out flowers from old tins – wildflowers and lavender. She is doing so to honour the lives of the fallen soldiers. It is clear in the dream that it is of no importance to her which side they were on; it is their lives she is honouring with the flowers. Each flower tenderly Pushed into the dark soil says, here was a life.

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Traditionally the colour lavender in the Christian calendar is the colour of Easter.

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Death, and resurrection.

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The dream is not an argument for moral equivalence in war (a dream is not an argument for anything). But Christ makes no distinction between us; He is not interested if you were on the side of the victor or the vanquished. His interest is the texture of the human soul.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”

Jean Baudrillard (1994) “Simulacra and simulation”

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

-Karl Rahner, German Jesuit priest and theologian

“Every lived moment has an eternal significance and already constitutes a fulfilled life. For fulfilled life is not measured by the number of years that have been lived through, or spent in one way or another. It is measured according to the depth of lived experience.”