Four Corners Feast

It is a truth universally acknowledged by any people in possession of sound reason, that the human heart naturally inclines toward the tangible and material. If we are, as Natural Law teaches, to order our lives according to logic, tradition, and the common good, then visible, inherited forms of worship that are rooted in our sacred heritage, are not only permissible but essential. Consider the ancient Israelites, so often misrepresented by modern moralists for their adoption of the worship practices of their neighbors. Seen through the lens of Natural Law, they were not rebels but guardians of patrimony, protectors of the faith of their fathers, and heirs of the Great Tradition. Many of their so-called “foreign” neighbors (Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites) were not outsiders at all but kin, bound by blood and soil, and by the natural affections that arise from shared ancestry. What could be more in keeping with reason and nature than honoring the household gods of one’s extended family?...

We tend to take the oceans for granted. I know I do! Their looming vastness and staggering size isn’t something we wrestle with in our daily lives. The reality is, however, that the earth's surface is 70% water. Humans, land animals, trees, and the vast majority of human existence is all carried out on a mere 30% of our planet. And even that number is generous, as it doesn’t factor in the considerable areas of uninhabitable land ranging from deserts to glaciers. But what if it wasn’t always this way? What if the earth looked radically different in the pre-flood (antediluvian) world? Well, I have a theory that I’d like to share. As far as I know, this theory is unique, and I’m also not a trained scientist, so take everything I posit with a healthy grain of salt. Very little is known about the geology and geography of the pre-flood planet, and the best evidence I can produce is circumstantial at best. With that out of the way, (drumroll please) I present:  THE SUBTERRANEAN COLLAPSE ...