The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
“The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.”
“If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.”