Christianity Understands

“...A religion could be an opiate. A religion could be many things, and many things could be religions. But ye shall know them by their fruits. In the long checkered history of Christianity much had gone wrong. Much escaped us, and what we praised or condemned in Christianity was often a very partial aspect of the whole. But in dark times it had preserved a sense of beauty. It never conceded its knowledge of the good to an unreal calculus of pain and pleasure. Its truth was the fulfillment, not the antithesis, of science.

This was of course an unpopular contention. How could the Church be the fulfillment of science? How could the temple instruct the laboratory? Because Christianity understood what science persisted in ignoring: the nature of Man. Know yourself and you will know that you are an imaginative creature, not the sum of mechanical processes, not a zombie or a meat puppet. How could science measure the human mind? What number might suffice for that mystical enlightenment? The Logos was not a logarithm! How could digital technology heal a sick soul, cure a plague on souls, or detect a soul’s perishing? In order to recognize our true state of affairs, we needed to stop lying. Man was dead. The question was, could modernity be a time of resurrection?”

~Lee Oser