Occasionally, I find myself writing posts like this, where I ramble on about a vague idea. They have the virtue of giving my dear readers an insight into how my mind works, though I can’t claim the following as a polished article. In this case, the condition of Captain Harlock’s world in 2977 A.D. reminds me of Our Lord’s complaint to St. Faustina about how many modern souls are lukewarm with respect to religion. This lukewarm attitude may be traced to the Enlightenment. (Actually, some trace it to the late Middle Ages, but the symptoms became obvious after the Renaissance.) More and more people questioned the validity of religion: didn’t religion lead to eighty years of continuous warfare during the Renaissance? Isn’t faith purely irrational? It became popular to cleave to a deistic model of the universe, and devoutly following the precepts of an organized religion became associated with the…
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