God Speaks and Acts & the Relics of Capital

Key Takeaway

Since the earliest flickers of human consciousness, our relationship with the divine operated under the terms of an earnest, hopeful one-way radio. We knelt in the damp grass, whispered into the cold vaults of cathedrals, or stared at the ceiling at three in the morning, dispatching urgent bulletins into the silence. Supplication was an act of profound vulnerability: humanity pleaded for rain, for remission, for bread, and for mercy, while the heavens responded through the notoriously ambiguous mediums of weather, historical accidents, and inner conviction. […]

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