Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Nature Worship
There is a difference, though, between your (Rosemarie) primitive man and your atheist "scientist". The primitive man would have viewed the eclipse as a manifestation of god's anger (or some other emotion), god being the moon or the sun, or God, or someone else. So while the primitive man may have felt transcendence from viewing an eclipse, that would be completely logical in view of his relation of it to some higher meaning.
The atheist "scientist" views the moon as a random piece of randomly-derived matter moving through a random universe. There is no meaning to such an event. And he struggles to find meaning in it, to satisfy some innate craving for meaning, though he will ever disregard the only One who can ever give it.
The atheist "scientist" views the moon as a random piece of randomly-derived matter moving through a random universe. There is no meaning to such an event. And he struggles to find meaning in it, to satisfy some innate craving for meaning, though he will ever disregard the only One who can ever give it.
