Category: Religion
Thoughts on God and the Machine.
I don’t often feel the need to say this, but Mass was great today. A soloist was in from Chicago and she sang both Ave Maria and Panis Angelicus. It was quite the treat to have both of those sung at the same Mass, and sung well. The homily was pretty interesting too, Fr. Rocca chose to speak about dissatisfaction as the byproduct of original sin.
This made me think a bit. If you read the story of Adam and Eve as fact instead of myth then it is possible to reach some interesting conclusions within the paradigm. But first, when I refer to the creation stories, and much of Genesis as myth, I am not attacking the veracity or importance of the verses, but instead speaking about them as the product of a divine inspiration through imperfect hands, or from an anthropological perspective as seminal texts that hold the basic values of a cultural system.
Thus, to get back what I concluded from the homily- in the Adam and Eve as fact paradigm — people are always desirous of dissatisfied because we are inherently imperfect in body and soul, but we strive for perfection.
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