Boggles the mind doesn’t it?

In “Alice’s Adventures in a Wonderland” we can’t help but note how staggering the similarities are between our former Christian tradition and the mad world or wonders Alice encounters. We can’t help but notice the oddities of her outlook compared to ours:

“She was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.”

There we were in Christendom whiling away the days “sleepy and stupid” and pondering nonsense so much so that when nonsense ran past us on full display, we missed it fully.

To hear a talking hare was “nothing so very remarkable” to us. It was only thinking it over after that we realized we aught to have wondered at this.

“But at the time it all seemed quite natural.”

What started us is exactly what started Alice.

She saw that the talking rabbit wore a wastecoat and carried a pocket watch.

What nonsense!

What spectacular audacity!

She could accept a talking rabbit, sure but a talking rabbit all dressed up and checking the time on a chronometer?!

That was just way too much nonsense to take in….“Burning with curiosity” off she went to investigate.

And did we not encounter such oddities in our travels down that strange Christian track?

Blessedly for us we happened upon much too much of the bazaar all at once to simply let it be any longer. That burning curiosity got the better of us. And off we went to look into the strangeness of it all.

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