Marcion and Dog-Breeding
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:31 pm
I had a fascinating discussion (irony) with one of my Facebook friends (I don't know how I have so many Facebook friends when I don't have many actual friends who aren't dads and moms on my son's soccer team). This lady posted the following:
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. ...
Of course I had to remind her that pugs are not found in nature and that their are entirely 'man-made' (I guess today that would be 'human-made'). She insisted that God was behind their cuteness and 'clowny nature.' But I had to insist than in fact the only dogs found in nature are those who attack in packs, mauling and rending their prey with their teeth.
It made me think that one of the reasons why the observation that 'the god of this world' is connected with vicious cruelty is lost on this generation is that most of them have no contact whatsoever with the 'wild kingdom.' Even if they go to a safari it is a tightly controlled man-made 'natural space.' The idea that God makes things vicious and gory made sense when people actually saw wildlife. But that's all gone. All we know is the city god.
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. ...
Of course I had to remind her that pugs are not found in nature and that their are entirely 'man-made' (I guess today that would be 'human-made'). She insisted that God was behind their cuteness and 'clowny nature.' But I had to insist than in fact the only dogs found in nature are those who attack in packs, mauling and rending their prey with their teeth.
It made me think that one of the reasons why the observation that 'the god of this world' is connected with vicious cruelty is lost on this generation is that most of them have no contact whatsoever with the 'wild kingdom.' Even if they go to a safari it is a tightly controlled man-made 'natural space.' The idea that God makes things vicious and gory made sense when people actually saw wildlife. But that's all gone. All we know is the city god.