Discuss: Seeing Paradise
13 comments
9 mike on Sep 09, 2008
10 Rockmaster on Sep 19, 2008
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, eh?
11 ismokerocks on Sep 23, 2008
I thought everyone already knew heaven wasn’t real…
12 Stan Goff on Oct 02, 2008
Bill McKibben, Laurel Kearns, Norman Wirzba, Sally McFague, Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard… the list could grow substantially… me. All “creation-care” Christians who understand that Revelations is about Rome; and that we are—above all—creatures.
Biblical literalism and right-wing fundamentalism need to be confronted on this and many other matters. Conflating all Christians with them is not helpful.
13 Michelle Thomasson on Sep 25, 2009
Powerful juxtaposing metaphors; heaven apart from earth or the earth itself as a heavenly place.
Neither a reality in the here and now. The earth is a wondrous home, but no sanctuary, how can it be when all is part of an elaborate food chain?
Heaven as a matter of faith or a form of perception - hope can carry us there, via a pathway of care for the earth and those upon it. It’s not easy, but it is much darker if your milieu gives no place to hope. Kindle any that you have and let it grow by acting upon it.
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Just practice terramaterism (which has no official tenets, just respect for mother earth) and all shall be fine.