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This truth is only available to the most advanced atheists and the most advanced Christians.
The advanced atheist has purged himself of all traces of folk religion, and understands the world as it is - an infinitely cold universe of protons and electrons, whose fundamental rules are a few lines of mathematics with no concept of humanity. Our galaxy is not even special, let alone our planet.
To the advanced Christian, God’s will is just as cold and his justice is just as inexorable, and evil is sent to punish evil.
Maistre read the French Revolution as God’s punishment of the decadent liberals who brought it about, and the weak conservatives who failed in their duty to oppose it. Was he wrong? I love my protons and electrons, but I can’t see how he was wrong.
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https://graymirror.substack.com/p/you-cant-handle-the-truth