09-01-2017, 10:31 AM
I always thought -- I think, as the elder theologians thought -- that God speaks through the material world in much the same way he reveals himself to us through various immaterial means; that there is synergy (as there is between the human soul and the grace of God) between the physical and the spiritual, and whatever evidence "contradicts" contradicts only according to our limited understanding, and not according to the deeper truth at hand.
On a tangent: my beliefs are generally still evolving, so if I have previously said anything sectarian to offend, I apologize. My ultimate, ethical goal when it comes to dealing with the Church is to unite, not to exclude, and at times I forget that.
Not a tangent: yeah, the first part of the piece does sort of read like a wank with slashes, although starting from "...pleasure" down to the second section it sort of gels. What makes it really read like a wank is that this "gripe" is, as a lot of us have noted here, kind of immature, unformed -- drunken, sure, but its drunkenness isn't highlighted anywhere in the poem, and if it's only highlighted via some exterior piece, then it might be best to show us said piece as well. It gels in the second section by showing us a narrative that may be the source of the speaker's gripe (if it's "the" gripe, then it should be universal, reaching even towards the most devout, yet still sane, Christians -- I imagine it would be something about how the world sucks or all life is struggle or whatever), so if no exterior piece is shown, maybe develop this second section?
On a tangent: my beliefs are generally still evolving, so if I have previously said anything sectarian to offend, I apologize. My ultimate, ethical goal when it comes to dealing with the Church is to unite, not to exclude, and at times I forget that.
Not a tangent: yeah, the first part of the piece does sort of read like a wank with slashes, although starting from "...pleasure" down to the second section it sort of gels. What makes it really read like a wank is that this "gripe" is, as a lot of us have noted here, kind of immature, unformed -- drunken, sure, but its drunkenness isn't highlighted anywhere in the poem, and if it's only highlighted via some exterior piece, then it might be best to show us said piece as well. It gels in the second section by showing us a narrative that may be the source of the speaker's gripe (if it's "the" gripe, then it should be universal, reaching even towards the most devout, yet still sane, Christians -- I imagine it would be something about how the world sucks or all life is struggle or whatever), so if no exterior piece is shown, maybe develop this second section?