I stood beneath an orange sky

I messaged this to my friend who studied Religion in college:

"This was simultaneously depressing and motivating to sit through.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKR-HydGohQ#t=438 

This is what I've appreciated about atheism: "Get busy, because this is your only chance. Inaction hurts worse than action. There is nothing left at the end, which means there is no failure, so no need to spend energy trying to avoid it." 

But I also feel pulled toward the comfort that faith brings: "Love is forever. The soul never dies, and cannot be separated from true love." 

Can't I have both? Dualism?"


She wrote back:

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  "Immanentist theologies basically do that same work. It's the notion that what matters about God is for the present, not the future. 
• Christianity has transcendental (God is other than us, bigger than us and mostly beyond us) and immanentist (God is in the world or is the world, his power is here and now not in the future, and it's the power of love not force)"

I've sat on that a few days and this is what I think:

"Orange Sky"

Well I had a dream

I stood beneath an orange sky 

Yes I had a dream 

I stood beneath an orange sky 

With my brother standing by 

With my brother standing by 

I said, "Brother, you know you know 

It's a long road we've been walking on 

Brother, you know it is you know it is 

Such a long road we've been walking on." 

And I had a dream 

I stood beneath an orange sky 

With my sister standing by 

With my sister standing by 

I said, "Sister, here is what I know now 

Here is what I know now 

Goes like this.. 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, in your love, in your love."

"But sister you know I'm so weary 

And you know, sister 

My heart's been broken 

Sometimes, sometimes 

My mind is too strong to carry on 

Too strong to carry on"

"When I am alone 

When I've thrown off the weight of this crazy stone 

When I've lost all care for the things I own 

That's when I miss you, that's when I miss you, that's when I miss you 

You who are my home 

You who are my home 

And here is what I know now 

Here is what I know now 

Goes like this.. 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, my salvation lies 

In your love, in your love, in your love"

Well I had a dream 

I stood beneath an orange sky 

Yes I had a dream 

I stood beneath an orange sky 

With my brother and my sister standing by

With my brother and my sister standing by

With my brother and my sister standing by