Looked at this this morning and it is interesting. Anderson is the better player now but compare his 24/25 stats (pink) with Fernandes 25/26 stats (green). This comparison is fair because Fernandes was even younger last season than Anderson in the 24/25 season. Who says Fernandes canโt take the same leap under Carrick + Brunoโs mentorship?
Nobody asks why beauty exists, but everyone asks why suffering does. The question nobody asks is the one that changes everything.
Modern physics confirms that the universe has an undeniable, finely tuned order: the gravitational constant is calibrated so precisely that a deviation of 1 in 10^40 collapses everything.
The human eye processes 10 million colors. DNA encodes more information per cubic millimeter than any human technology has approached. This is all magnificent, the designerโs track record is not in question.
If a surgeon has performed ten thousand flawless operations and you are on his table, you do not demand explanations for every incision. Excellence earns the right to say โI know what Iโm doingโ before the full explanation arrives. Past precision earns theological trust for the parts we cannot yet explain.
It also proves capability: if this God can build something as complex as DNA, then he has the technical capacity to end suffering. The question is not if, but when.
A hidden premise is buried inside the very popular complaint about suffering. When we ask why God allows suffering, we assume we deserve better. We demand perfection now, before the final act of history.
The Christian framework refuses that assumption, it posits that sin is not merely a behavioral lapse correctable with effort; it is an ontological distortion, a fracture in our nature, and a chosen distance from the source of all coherence. The world we experience is not random cruelty; it is the accurate shape of that distance. The farther from the light you go, the darker it gets. That is the factual architecture. In this sense the staggering question is not why we suffer, but why, given what we are, anything beautiful exists at all.
What we have now is a mediated reality. God governs through instruments and delegated systems; the sun for light, the rain for growth. This is God operating behind a veil, and the reason is mercy. To drop the veil and introduce his full presence into a fractured world would mean immediate consumption by absolute justice.
To end all suffering this second would require either importing evil into the final perfect state, or executing final judgment immediately, closing the door on everyone not yet reconciled. The pause before the last act is not negligence, it is a stay of execution, the widest mercy available, keeping the door open for reconciliation before the final reality sets in.
Revelation 21 promises he will wipe every tear from every eye. This is not a general amnesty where wrongs are administratively cleared, but something personal, individual, and complete. If a single person in the new creation carries unaddressed grief over what God allowed, the system fails. The promise is therefore not a mere comfort verse, but it is a contractual commitment from a God with the full capacity to keep it.
In the New Jerusalem, the delegation stops. There is no sun or moon, for God himself is the light of the city. He removes the veil and gives all of himself. What we are living in now, with its suffering and its waiting, is simply the scaffolding. Scaffolding has rough edges by nature, and that is not an indictment of the architect.
The beauty of Christianity is that it does not dress cultures, it consecrates them. That is why the nun rebuttal Muslims make never works on me.
Christianity is a religion of inward transformation. It does not enter a culture and replace what people wear. It enters a culture and sanctifies it. Which is why in a world shaped by Christianity you see variance, dignity, and beauty expressed through a thousand different cultural vocabularies. African women in their ancestral elegance. European women in theirs. The gospel walked into every civilization and said: bring yourself and glorify God in your essence.
That is why nuns stand out. Their covering carries weight precisely because it is not what everyone else wears. The distinctiveness means something in a room full of women already worshipping in their own traditions. A nun in a crowd of Christian women from different cultures is a statement of singular consecration. A nun in a world where all women dress the same is just a woman.
Now imagine a world under Islam. Every woman dressed the same way. Regardless of continent, climate, culture, or history. There is no Nigerian woman, no Malian woman, no French woman. There is only the prescribed form. Islam does not consecrate cultures. It replaces them.
And then you trace the revelation itself. One of the cited reasons for the Quranic instruction on covering was to distinguish Muhammadโs wives and free Muslim women from enslaved women. Enslaved women who, under the same Islamic system, were available to be violated and sexually abused. The hijab was in part a status marker separating women men were required to respect from women men were not.
Think carefully about what it means for a divine revelation to be organized around that distinction. Not around the dignity of every woman but around which category of woman you belonged to.
Close your eyes and imagine a world where only Christianity exists. What do you see? I see color, culture, beauty, a thousand peoples glorifying God in their own forms.
Now close your eyes and imagine a world entirely under Islam and Sharia.
What you see in that second image is the argument.
If you ever feel stupid, remember that some women abandoned beautiful cultural dressing for a black covering from the desert and were convinced it was freedom.
Yep. If everybody dressed like a nun then where is the consecration for them? Much like priests, they set apart themselves by deciding not to marry, their commitment is as beautiful as those who decide to glorify God by having large families. This is diversity, this is beauty in worship and in consecration.
โOne of the cited reasons for the Quranic instruction on covering was to distinguish Muhammadโs wives and free Muslim women from enslaved women. Enslaved women who, under the same Islamic system, were available to be violated and sexually abused. The hijab was in part a status marker separating women men were required to respect from women men were not.โ
Nope these societies while built on Christian ideals have abandoned Christ and his ideals. This is exactly how God wants it, he gave people choice and free will but showed the clear path to him. Iโll much rather live in a free society that expresses its choice to deviate from Christ while having remnants and servants of God preaching the message of love and reconciliation than one that is Sharia controlled and led by fully bearded pedophile rascals and terrorists. Christs message is one of submission through love not submission through rascality.
Yes. Christianity in all its core teachings is individual inward choices. YOU personally have to accept Christ. Islam is collectivist and outward. Become part of the Umma and submit to islamic law OR be punished.
โฆโThe pause before the last act is not negligence, it is a stay of execution, the widest mercy availableโฆโ. ๐ to fully understand His Mercyโฆbreaks my heart.