06-23-2021, 03:12 AM
On first reading, this was intriguing with its ambivalence between Christ and God (and, perhaps, pagan Gaea). Wasn't sure what was going on, in other words.
On second reading, an interpretation formed: is the narrator speaking, perhaps, of oil and gas extraction, those streams of water used for fracking and the tree-like towers for slant-drilling, seats of domes to hold the released natural gas with its sun-rivaling bounty of energy? (Against which, there seems to be a counter-consensus forming that carbon-based fluids such as oil and gas may be continuously produced, not "fossil" fuels as coal patently is.... but one digresses.)
Still confused as to Who was imposing and Whom imposed upon - the Lord did, of course, command mankind to subdue the earth, and the natural terrain is not God's Face, merely the work of His fingers. So still a little confusion between Creator and creation, or more than a hint of pantheism. But questions interestingly posed, and certainly thought-provoking. The Old Testament has no Prometheus, only a Serpent. So what fire we make is not unrighteous, is it?
On second reading, an interpretation formed: is the narrator speaking, perhaps, of oil and gas extraction, those streams of water used for fracking and the tree-like towers for slant-drilling, seats of domes to hold the released natural gas with its sun-rivaling bounty of energy? (Against which, there seems to be a counter-consensus forming that carbon-based fluids such as oil and gas may be continuously produced, not "fossil" fuels as coal patently is.... but one digresses.)
Still confused as to Who was imposing and Whom imposed upon - the Lord did, of course, command mankind to subdue the earth, and the natural terrain is not God's Face, merely the work of His fingers. So still a little confusion between Creator and creation, or more than a hint of pantheism. But questions interestingly posed, and certainly thought-provoking. The Old Testament has no Prometheus, only a Serpent. So what fire we make is not unrighteous, is it?
Non-practicing atheist