Thursday, July 22, 2021

What a little heaven you must inhabit, with angels no bigger than butterflies!

Or it might be the third case, of the madman who called himself Christ. If we said what we felt, we should say, “So you are the Creator and Redeemer of the world: but what a small world it must be! What a little heaven you must inhabit, with angels no bigger than butterflies! How sad it must be to be God; and an inadequate God! Is there really no life fuller and no love more marvellous than yours; and is it really in your small and painful pity that all flesh must put its faith? How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos, scattering the stars like spangles, and leave you in the open, free like other men to look up as well as down!”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
This is so fascinating when considered with our world 113 years after Orthodoxy was written. With the denial of religion and the underpinnings of Western culture, we can see that there are an awful lot of people who are like "the madman who called himself Christ."

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