The Empty Substitute
Trying to get caught up on my daily scripture readings (yes, I’m WAY behind). This is from the reading for Christmas eve. I’m not sure how true this is anymore, but no one from my generation or born in the next couple of decades could read this without hearing the voice of Linus. This is true because this reflected the CULTURE of our time. Culture is everything. It is the reason why engineering replaced human sacrifice to pagan gods as the means of mitigating the more disastrous effects of our environment. It is the reason why the ancestors to what became the Dutch began building a form of dike to hold back frequent flood waters over 2000 years ago. It is the reason why hospitals with names taken from Christian saints or Mary, the Mother of God, and staffed by Christian monastics were built beginning in the Medieval period to care and comfort the sick and injured. It is what gave us the ideas taken from the Romans and the Greeks to create a new nation, “conc...