You reach a point in Physics where its beauty is beyond simple basic appreciation. You cannot just open a book on quantum physics, its real essence, and bask in its beauty, its solution to countless unexplained experiments and phenomena, the missing piece along a long road of discovery. From Maxwell’s work on the speed of light, to Faraday’s Experiments with phases and their variations, to numerous other experiments, leading to the onset of a new framework of explaining matter’s relationship to time and space, involving far more imaginative solutions than constants and unchanging regard for measures and objects.
Likewise, Christianity may reach a level, where the three year old does not understand why his father must die for his faith as a martyr, bearing the cross and his confession to the end and to death. Beyond this, there are many hard truths, the Christian must face for the world, which too many adults even, cannot understand nor appreciate if not experienced and taught.
Why does the Christian have to rebuke? Why not just say nice things in a soft tone? Why does he have to be so revolutionary at times? Why can’t he just smile, be happy, and fit in?
He can, but then he’d be a sinner, for cowardice is marked among the sins of murder and sorcery and lying.
This is the quantum realm of Christianity, where man must go beyond second grade tonality and take up his cross and be a soldier, a mystic, a man fighting against all things, drinking from the fountain of the Apostles, who were not merely opposed, but brutally slaughtered, from the well which draws from the source, the waters that come from the heavens.
Brutally slaughtered, some saints had their tongues cut off. Saints. Saints had their tongues cut off. Prayerful men. This is what Christianity ends with. Brutal murder in injustice. Don’t tell me that Christianity is softened tones and fitting in, for if that is what sainthood is, how could they be treated like this? Behold, St. Maximus the Confessor, a mystic, a saint who proclaimed the faith to the end, mutilated and beaten, with every limb cut off.