[ SECRET POST #2664 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2664 ⌋

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Comments

I completely understand this secret, though for the opposite reason.

[(Anonymous)]

I was actually going to make a secret on this. I am Christian and I've taken some religious courses in college and read some books on the subject but I'm by no means well read. And yet, the things that strengthen my beliefs and make me understand them the best come from science/archeology/history/etc. but they also come from Tolkien.

Nothing has made the "how can a loving God allow evil?" make more sense to me than this:
http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2013/12/19/why-would-melkor-and-sauron-rebel-against-iluvatar/
It's not like the author's saying anything new and he's not trying to make a point about Christianity; he's just using it because Tolkien was clearly writing from that lens so it's useful for understanding the characters in the Silmarillion, but seeing it condensed like this was really useful to me.

And Tolkien's writings themselves have a lot of food for thought. "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" and the accompanying commentary really got me thinking about the nature and purpose of death. Tolkien's own struggle in his writing (is death a gift before or after the fall of Men?) was really intriguing in itself. Reading Finrod and Andreth argue about the nature of death gave me a new perspective on looking at God's intentions as a whole (not just about death) and made me question the assumptions I place on Him. (By Tolkien's struggle, I mean that in different pieces of writing, he says different things.)

So, I totally understand finding new things about your own faith in unexpected places. It happens to me all the time.

Re: I completely understand this secret, though for the opposite reason.

[diet_poison]

I get this too when I see cool parallels about faith in other works.