If I were a satirist I might try to write a story set in 35, 830 AD (they'll have gone back to using Year of the Lord, just to annoy the right people) in which two people talk about the amazingly primitive ideas of ignorant plutonium age folk who believed all kinds of amazingly stupid stuff and who were so uninformed as to believe there was no God. Something no one was so benighted to believe anymore in the age of Universal Kindness.
It is one of the more silly ideas of a conceited and ignorant age that knowledge such as is available to us, today, represents a glorious conclusion of what is knowable. That we are such a great leap of an advance over the "bronze age" or other period disdained whenever online atheists start gassing on ignorantly and arrogantly. If we were all that much advanced we wouldn't have wars, poverty, preventable disease, preventable deaths, preventable and unwanted pregnancies, commercial and sexual exploitation of children, women, men, slavery - let's not forget slavery, such atheist paradises pretending to be Marxist paradises such as China and North Korea among the larger venues of slave labor in the world.
Anyone who thinks an age which is destroying the very basis of life, with science, with technology, in the pursuit of fortunes too big for their owners to ever spend in a thousand lifetimes and tacky, gaudy baubles and masses of bling that would make a Pharoh gag at the excess, is some kind of great advance on the past is probably distracted by the wall screen and the one in their hand and on their phone, on which they're probably catching their latest show and other brilliant products of the intellect as they check on what's new about Honey Boo Boo's mother and Lena Dunham's latest hair color.
You want a dark age, we live in the darkest of them. That enlightenment is just the TV screen set to FOX entertainment where Seth MacFarlane is telling you how smart you are.
Update: I generally use CE and BCE to annoy one set of the right people, I think I'll sometimes use the old AD and BC to annoy another appropriate target set of the right people who have a lot in common with that other set of them.
Seminary taught me a profound truth: that being human hasn't changed since the time of Abraham.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't understand that, you don't understand much worth knowing.