[pelathais]

I've been wrestling with the idea of what to call this new age of understanding. Since some homophobe in Europe coined the term "Modern" to describe what was happening 150 years ago and the follow up has been inevitibly called "Post Modernism," what's next?

The problem was that people thought they had really arrived back in the Victorian period. They thought they were the very height of morality and civilization. So they called themselves "Modern." Modern means "current," as in "right now." Problem is, every age was "modern" at the time.

When the Victorian colonial empires fell apart - due largely to the rampant immorality of the times; many folks in the West just sort of shrivelled up.

POMO tended to emphasize that diminution of the West and celebrated the "Noble Savages" who are now our masters. Unfortunately, the "savages" aren't always so "noble" and their savagery isn't always the result of their colonial administrations (which is viewed today as sort of a global version of Freud's toilet training).

Personally, I am some what positive about the future. I reject the dire notions of Dispensationalism, but I do recognize the cycle and pattern of the "Prophetic Cycle" as outlined in the history of Israel and the book of Revelation. So, there's always "judgment" right around the corner, but there's also forgiveness and renewal.

So, what do we call "tomorrow?" What do you call the day after Easter? Ironically, we are reintroduced to Thomas and his doubts all over again.