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...solidify their faith? To show dramatically that God took such an interest in his creation? The Incarnation, as C.S. Lewis wrote, was the greatest of Christian miracles, the profound transaction in which the Word became flesh. God, the principle of eternity, becomes one with the human, earthly and mortal. The birth sanctified all human birth...
...miracles do not have to top themselves from one year to the next. Secular miracles become obsolete: the first silent movies were miraculous. Then the talkies were miraculous. Then television. When miracles can be superseded by new miracles, they have descended from the realm of the absolute. Miracles become mortal...
...mortal enemies in this debate don't even widely disagree after all the emotions are removed. The anti-ROTC types are not out to oppose militarism, and they support military scholarships for higher education. The pro-ROTC types are not out to oppose homosexuality, and they support the movement to change the Department of Defense policy prohibiting homosexuals...
...cannot help but wonder if Wasinger had a gay daughter or son just how lightly he would take their struggle with all of these things, or if he and those he claims share his version of a "metaphysical reality" would recognize, finally, that it is not through metaphysics, but mortal ignorance that one might presume to know what is right and best for those they know next to nothing about...
...inescapable problem is the play's candy-box presentation of mortal agony as a peaceful, painless passing into a warm yellow light, followed by a resumption for eternity of one's former games and rituals. Save for about three minutes of medical candor, this is a vapid insult to anyone struggling with the real problem of mortality. Perhaps Scott, 64, finds this inanity reassuring. But what a pity to waste his gifts on piffle...