Heaven: Right now bro.

2010-12-07T06:44:23.277-08:00

It's very interesting that the modern idolater...

2010-12-06T14:33:00.460-08:00

It's very interesting that the modern idolaters erect their own towers and giant simulacra of Asherah poles, creating their own high spots and peaks on which to worship the host of heaven. Babel lives, and the common language now is money.

We're speaking of a fiction here, of course. The modern world economy is a con game created by cunning, crafty men (and women) who have convinced the rest of us to buy into the fantasy that we live in. When trillions of dollars' worth of "wealth" can vanish in the swings of the stock markets, I have to insist that this "wealth" wasn't really there to begin with. Just like the smoke blowing away from an altar, it was only a shade, a transitory figment. We've all bought into the shell game as it's played, and we all really, really want it to be a true representation, but of course it's not. Avarice is a delusion we perpetrate on ourselves, and we're both the agents and the victims.

Nicholas shows the true human heart, the true heart revealed by the Son - a heart of charity, of giving without thought of return. What will this world be like when we stop thinking of it as too small to provide what we need, too small to provide what we _want_, and realize that our needs aren't what we think they are, and that the world is a rich source of all that really matters? New heavens, new earth - how soon, Lord?

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Heaven: Right now bro.

It's very interesting that the modern idolater...