“Selinunte: Site of ancient massacre yields the secrets of a lost Greek city”

“Selinunte: Site of ancient massacre yields the secrets of a lost Greek city” November 8, 2015

 

Temple E, Selinunte, Sicily
The Temple of Hera, at Selinunte
(Wikimedia Commons)
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This story is archaeologically and historically fascinating.  But it’s also humanly moving.  There’s been so terribly much pain and sorrow and horror in human history:

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/selinunte-site-of-ancient-massacre-yields-the-secrets-of-a-lost-greek-city-a6726496.html

 

Stories such as this make it impossible for me to understand how any thinking, feeling human being can be indifferent to, apathetic about, the idea of God, an afterlife, and an atoning Redeemer.

 

I can understand thinking such things untrue.  I cannot understand believing that they don’t matter.

 

The thought that the lives of the people of Selinunte ended the way they did would be excruciatingly sad to me, almost unbearable, if I believed that ending to be absolute, the final word, with no compensatory happy chapter to follow.  If I didn’t believe with Julian of Norwich that, ultimately, “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”

 

 


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