Every day brings us a new photo of a new atrocity. A man thrown from a roof; a man caged and burned.
What do we seek? We seek a way for human beings to pass over a terrible cusp in our history; a way to accept and testify that God is good, not merely "compassionate" or "merciful" but good. A good God who presides over a good and lawful world does not command atrocities.
Any human being can understand this. It doesn't require prophecy. Any prophet who did not understand it was wrong, or did not hear God, or both. The nice parts of a religion -- holidays, prayers, small, inculcated decencies -- no longer matter when its core shows itself to be nothing but hammer blows of violence and degradation. Forever. Unless the people trapped in it cross the cusp.
And, one learns that they are doing so; by the thousands, even millions.
Here.
And here.
Also here.
And even here.
(By the way, it's "The Seeker" riesling, Mosel, 2012. Retail, about $13.)
What do we seek? We seek a way for human beings to pass over a terrible cusp in our history; a way to accept and testify that God is good, not merely "compassionate" or "merciful" but good. A good God who presides over a good and lawful world does not command atrocities.
Any human being can understand this. It doesn't require prophecy. Any prophet who did not understand it was wrong, or did not hear God, or both. The nice parts of a religion -- holidays, prayers, small, inculcated decencies -- no longer matter when its core shows itself to be nothing but hammer blows of violence and degradation. Forever. Unless the people trapped in it cross the cusp.
And, one learns that they are doing so; by the thousands, even millions.
Here.
And here.
Also here.
And even here.
(By the way, it's "The Seeker" riesling, Mosel, 2012. Retail, about $13.)
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