I recently had a screen name change, so I guess I need to update it.
"Clockwork Reality" essentially summizes my views on creation and religion. That the universe is a finely tuned mechanism when left to its on devices--balance has a way of interjecting itself into chaos. However, humanity has a tendency to destroy that balance, despite its best of intentions.
As for my view on God and Salvation--I am a Christian. However, I take more of an "Enlightenment Era" view of Christianity. We are armed with free choice and the promise of salvation; from this point on, it's up to people to make their own choices. God watches from a distance, interjecting when needed, but otherwise allows the clock to run itself.
It's also an homage to some of my favorite literary passages. Namely, A Clockwork Orange, which examines a petulant and violent society among expectations for conformity. It also alludes to Chapter IV of The Watchmen; "who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there . . . a clock without a craftsman."
So there you go.
"Clockwork Reality" essentially summizes my views on creation and religion. That the universe is a finely tuned mechanism when left to its on devices--balance has a way of interjecting itself into chaos. However, humanity has a tendency to destroy that balance, despite its best of intentions.
As for my view on God and Salvation--I am a Christian. However, I take more of an "Enlightenment Era" view of Christianity. We are armed with free choice and the promise of salvation; from this point on, it's up to people to make their own choices. God watches from a distance, interjecting when needed, but otherwise allows the clock to run itself.
It's also an homage to some of my favorite literary passages. Namely, A Clockwork Orange, which examines a petulant and violent society among expectations for conformity. It also alludes to Chapter IV of The Watchmen; "who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there . . . a clock without a craftsman."
So there you go.