Last night, after work, I had a great time of side splitting laughter with dear friends. We also had some interesting discussions before another strain of thought set in. Andrew condemns monotheists for their dualisms. I said, “I’m no dualist, I don’t want to be a dualist, I buck against dualism.” Orthodoxy claims no division between mater and spirit, heaven and earth, tangible and intangible, sacred and secular. Those are the distinctions of the heretics, Gnostics, Arians, Donatists, and Manachees.
May we never, sitting in our pews, living the lives of the Christian, compartmentalize our lives into dualisms of our own making. God is everything, in everything, and sustains all things through his will. What pantheist can claim such integration of the natural and divine?