If the Adam and Eve stories are true, then what the hell happened to us?\u00a0 From the perspective of Chapter 7 of Zimmerman\u2019s text, according to the Catholic Magisterium, \u201cbodily death\u201d is one of the hells that happen to us.<\/p>\n
How would An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em> accord with that view?<\/p>\n Consider a civilization that was really getting into the organizational benefits of speech-alone talk when Spanish adventurers abruptly halted their expansion.\u00a0 The Inca had a tradition where each sovereign would remain alive, and hold court, even though he (occasionally she) was dead.\u00a0 The only way for a new sovereign to get a good court was through expansion.\u00a0 Thus, each living Inca ruler was hell bent on getting more territory.\u00a0 And every dead Inca ruler had already established a court hell for all who remained.<\/p>\n The Inca attitude toward bodily death was completely different from the attitude expressed in the Genesis word-play where the fruit-eating leaf-wearing \u201cAdam\u201d (a name that stands for earth and humans) is relegated to the law of diminishing returns and bodily annihilation; \u201cdust you are and to dust you will return\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, we must acknowledge that even the term \u201cbodily death\u201d, which seems to correspond to a universal, stark and inevitable referent, belongs to a system of differences that has a life of its own.\u00a0 The Inca Civilization was not Christian.<\/p>\n Similarly, we may consider upcoming manifestations of Progressive control: \u201ccommittees for the quality of life\u201d or \u201cfutile action committees\u201d or whatever you want to call them other than \u201cdeath panels\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The recipients of their orders will be expected to say (or an agent will say it for them): \u201cI have lived a good life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, the refusal future treatment (or maybe, more proactively, the \u201cinjection\u201d) is some sort of reward.\u00a0 Again, we must acknowledge that even the term \u201cbodily death\u201d, which seems to correspond to a universal, stark and inevitable referent, belongs to a system of differences that has a life of its own.\u00a0 The Progressive Civilization is not Christian.<\/p>\n Consider Zimmerman\u2019s nugget: Death follows sin, so beware! Does it apply here?\u00a0 Or is there a pattern to these examples that is far more sinister?\u00a0\u00a0 The words \u201cbodily death\u201d that almost went away but nevertheless stayed in Zimmerman\u2019s tale in Chapter 7 float like an oil spill on a sea of symbolic orders that re-define what it means to die.\u00a0 It is hideous to the waters below and to the skies above.\u00a0 It is a blot because, in its place in the symbolic order that speaks the Catholic Catechism, it corresponds precisely to the universal, stark and inevitable referent that the above examples veil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If the Adam and Eve stories are true, then what the hell happened to us?\u00a0 From the perspective of Chapter 7 of Zimmerman\u2019s text, according to the Catholic Magisterium, \u201cbodily death\u201d is one of the hells that happen to us. How would An Archaeology of the Fall accord with that view? Consider a civilization that […]<\/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-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n