Oczy przejmuje fascynację i pasję, które Gras odkrył w teorii heliocentrycznej. Mężczyzna odnajduje błyskotliwego Badeniego. Razem szukają wspólnika, żeby pomógł im potwierdzić teorię. Natykają się na dziewczynę, która jako naukowczyni jest ewenementem w tym świecie. Grupa poznaje badania hrabiego Piasta dotyczące teorii geocentrycznej, w którą Badeni zagłębia się jeszcze bardziej niż magnat. I mimo iż każdy podąża swoją ścieżką, w cieniu kryje się rozpacz.
I just feel like the author has such a tenuous grasp on Christianity. Jolenta feels guilty for saying words are a miracle- as if the first words of the book of John aren't "In the Beginning was the Word." In Christianity, God is The Word. By words He created the world. By their preservation in the bible, we learn of Him. Paul teaches saints across the sea via written, his epistles being the bulk of the new testament. To suggest the written word is anything less than a miracle is blasphemy.
Again, a failure of the author to read the bible. A student asks "why are there rainbows" and the Father gives a completely nonbiblical answer. The theological answer to this question is in the first book of the bible - God creates rainbows as a token that He won't flood the Earth again, as He did with Noah. So when it rains, we can be at peace and remember His promise, but also the lesson of the story of Noah. This is a great theological lesson. He could even keep the same message, the student probing to understand, or asking "well why does my watering bucket make a rainbow when I water my plants then?"
There's an interesting monologue near the end of volume four about basically arguing for peer reviewed papers and the scientific process. It's actually fairly interesting, and I can see one of the characters has been designed in his selfish way to teach this lesson. But again, when religion is brought into the monologue, it just shows how little Uoto understands about Christianity and Faith. His description of faith is "refusing to acknowledge you might be wrong and not allowing for rebuttal from a third party." He describes the scientific process as "trusting others." There's some logic there, but it mostly misses the mark. When faith is, essentially, trust. When God told old man Abraham he would have posterity like the stars, the bible says Abraham "believed God," despite he and his wife being extremely old. Faith IS a type of trust. It's deciding to believe what God has said.
The only valid argument is that this isn't actually about Christianity, after all, it's never called the "Catholic Church," but the "C- Church." To be honest, the story would work much better if it was complete alternate history, paralleling real history and religious suppression. That way you can be as hyperbolic as you want with little regard for reality. It fails as a commentary because it doesn't theologically understand what it's trying to comment on. Just really unimpressed, and the story isn't compelling enough to drive me to keep reading. I'm halfway through, but I'm feeling like maybe I'll just stop here.
Aww I love Okgi. Dude finds a reason to want to learn, and to admire the world around him. He actually cares about people, and his commitment to the movement of the Earth isn't out of a desire to show how smart he is or leaving some grand footprint on reality, rather an admiration of wonder. He's so cool.
How hard would you fight for your beliefs? Would you spill blood for them? Orb puts that question forward in its story and follows through to the conclusion. Really amazing experiences. I’ll remember the invocation in moonlight at the end of this volume going forward. 🙏