The answer, according to parents, church and school, was to be good. But how good? What if being sufficiently good was impossible? Protestantism, the envervated version of Christianity adopted by the Tudor gang, doesn’t allow for any redemption in the afterlife: several centuries of torture...
Morris also began to see this holistic view all over scripture: in Genesis, where the mandate to have dominion over creation did not seem to imply callous exploitation but rather a call to wise stewardship, and throughout the Gospels, where Jesus didn’t assuage people’s suffering with p...