Reminds me of what I call "The Church of Bad Shit Happens to Other People". It virtually never crosses the minds of the faithful that fate might step up at any minute and turn their lives inside out. Only people on the news die in plane crashes and house fires, have surgeons remove the wrong kidney, get mauled by their neighbor's pit bul…
Reminds me of what I call "The Church of Bad Shit Happens to Other People". It virtually never crosses the minds of the faithful that fate might step up at any minute and turn their lives inside out. Only people on the news die in plane crashes and house fires, have surgeons remove the wrong kidney, get mauled by their neighbor's pit bull, have their daughter disappear without a trace, and you name it.
Pains me to say I strongly suspect these types make up a majority, at least in the western world. What could possibly go wrong as we ride the endless wave of technical progress and zombie prosperity kept alive on equally endless credit?
In the Middle Ages, truly faithful, who believed in the eternal and not the temporal, kept little "memento mori" motifs and objects nearby to remind them of the everpresent reality of Death. Misfortune did not come as a shock to them, I would wager.
Reminds me of what I call "The Church of Bad Shit Happens to Other People". It virtually never crosses the minds of the faithful that fate might step up at any minute and turn their lives inside out. Only people on the news die in plane crashes and house fires, have surgeons remove the wrong kidney, get mauled by their neighbor's pit bull, have their daughter disappear without a trace, and you name it.
Pains me to say I strongly suspect these types make up a majority, at least in the western world. What could possibly go wrong as we ride the endless wave of technical progress and zombie prosperity kept alive on equally endless credit?
In the Middle Ages, truly faithful, who believed in the eternal and not the temporal, kept little "memento mori" motifs and objects nearby to remind them of the everpresent reality of Death. Misfortune did not come as a shock to them, I would wager.