Slouching Towards Armageddon
The Tao of Christ
English - April 02, 2020 17:00 - 10 minutes - 7.58 MB - ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Christianity non-duality non-dualism advaita taoism tao te ching christian mysticism nonduality spirituality contemplative progressive christianity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode of Devotions for a Pandemic, I look at the fear that is gripping our country in anticipation of a surge of cases in the coming weeks. I compare this to the apocalyptic spirit that was present in the first century during the time of Jesus. Today we are in a better place to comprehend the feelings of the earliest disciples of Jesus as they hid behind closed doors in fear for their lives.
I end the devotion with a reading of W. B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” which is the inspiration for the title of my devotion. Yeats wrote that poem in 1919 during the great influenza epidemic that infected 500 million people — a quarter of the world's population at the time. It has some marvelous lines that are relevant to our situation today.