[What did de Chardin see as our illusion?<\/p>\n
We long to be above the participation.\u00a0 We long to be like God.<\/p>\n
Consider those who have arranged that they never slip back into Nothingness.\u00a0 Consider Lenin and now, Chavez.\u00a0 Their plasticized remains are on display for all to see.\u00a0 They are preserved as demonic apparitions beneath glass facades.<\/p>\n
Compare them to the famous Christian relics, which are preserved in equally beautiful, sublime and scary apparatuses.\u00a0 The saints did not ask to be so preserved.\u00a0 In a way, their admirers preserved their bodies against the wishes of the saints.<\/p>\n
Relics are icons of a \u201cremembering\u201d.\u00a0 They are our way of asking God to not forget this moment, or that moment, when the spontaneous order held this person of great gravity and intensity.<\/p>\n
We cannot imagine that this moment, every moment, is God Recognizing Himself.\u00a0\u00a0 Even though we physically return to Nothingness, something remains.<\/p>\n
God remains.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[What did de Chardin see as our illusion? We long to be above the participation.\u00a0 We long to be like God. Consider those who have arranged that they never slip back into Nothingness.\u00a0 Consider Lenin and now, Chavez.\u00a0 Their plasticized remains are on display for all to see.\u00a0 They are preserved as demonic apparitions beneath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n