Acceptera tillvarons mörka krafter

At the heart of Religious belief is the Divine Mystery; that thing that cannot be known, that cannot be believed in. There is only Faith: the moral decision to choose Righteousness. Generally this is a topic I avoid, since the state of our theological conversations have devolved to the point of Reefer Madness, but to put it simply: I completely agree with Atheists: I don’t believe in that God either (and the Spanish Inquisition nods in approval). The Divine Mystery isn’t in snake handling, or speaking in tongues – it’s in Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem.

To vastly oversimplify it: Math has proven that Math can’t prove Math. And if Math can’t prove Math, then nothing can prove Math. You’re now left with a moral choice: either you choose Faith that Math is True, or you become a post-modernist arguing that “2+2=4″ is a social construct. Both are valid responses – though in the case of the latter, we might need to Draw and Quarter you.

Quite frankly, it’s probably best if you don’t think about this too much.

The Liberals, in their Secularization of Christianity, have dragged the Absolute down to the level of the Objective; instead of the Divine Mystery, they have the Objective Contradiction – and along with it, an infectious unravelling.

Brin’s Otherness approaches as a friend, offering to relieve you of the abuses which The System imposed upon you – “Hey, teachers! Leave those kids alone!” – but far too late, you realize that you’ve fallen into another system, a system which rejects Natural Law, a system which rejects Logic, one which controls you by never admitting control. Surrounded by a host of Starspawn birthed from Cthulu’s loins, you’re free to choose any of the choices which they’ve (conveniently) already chosen for you: destroy yourself by destroying others. No more slavery! Now you get to choose alienation, pornography, video games, and Equality™.