Flow into the town of Miradoux and enjoy a brief-yet-satisfying respite in the cool-yet-glowingly-majestical confines of the local church … I’m not at all sure about the benefits for humanity that many claim from their own personal religions (be they adopted or inherited) – and I am often somewhat convinced that we would all be better off without any organized religion whatsoever, and yet the truth seems to remain that many of the buildings built by the magistrates of those same creeds are astoundingly beautiful, brings a deep-seated calm to their visitors, and vividly attest to the fact that our species CAN – whenever sincerely so inclined – do truly great & noble things.

“Is it true that man was once perfectly pure and innocent, and that he became degenerate via disobedience towards the divine? Of course not. The real truth is, and the history of man in truth shows, that he has steadily (albeit also slowly) advanced throughout the ages. Events, like the pendulum of a clock, may have swung forward and backward, and yet after all, man, like the hands of the same, has moved steadily onward. Humanity is not degenerating but is growing grander. The intellectual horizon of the world widens as the centuries pass. Ideals grow grander and purer; the differences between justice and mercy becomes smaller and less strident; liberty enlarges, and love for all sentient life intensifies as the years sweep on. The ages of force and fear, of cruelty and wrong, are fading into times of myth & legend and our real Eden lies just beyond. It is said that a desire for knowledge lost us the Eden of the past; and yet whether that is true or not, that grander knowing – alongside the courage to devoutly apply the same — will certainly provide us another Eden in our future.” ~ inspired by Robert G. Ingersoll

Filed under: Peace Pilgrimage #02: Walking HOME (2019) by Scaughdt