But the power of being is not man’s own power; it is the power of the Creator. And faith teaches us this about the Creator: that he is not only Truth, but also Love, and that the two are inseparable. God has as much power in the world as truth and love have. This would be a melancholy thought if all we knew of the world was what we ourselves have been able to observe and experience in the course of our lifetime. But from the perspective of the new experience that God has bestowed on us in Jesus Christ, together with himself and the world, it is a sentence full of triumphant hope. For now we can read this sentence in reverse: truth and love are identical with the power of God because he not only possesses truth and love, he is Truth and Love. Truth and love are, therefore, the real, the definitive power in the world. On this certainty rests the hope of the Church and the hope of Christians. Or better: that is why Christian existence is one of hope.
(Ratzinger, J. Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year. 59–60)
Since middle school, I’ve always had a strange fascination with the omni statements about God. Between trying to imagine nothing and figuring out when eternity ends, I would contemplate what it meant for God to be Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnibenevolent. Well, between those deeps thoughts and getting my butt kicked by my cousin in Blitz on the N64 that is. God’s omnipotence certainly didn’t save me from some rather embarrassing defeats.
It is a turn your brain off and go for the ride kind of show. I enjoy the concept and the plot. I have no problem with the way it seems to Frankenstein itself off of other Post-apocalyptic works. It starts as a kind of step-child of S.M. Stirling’s Dies the Fire and CBS’ Jericho. Its not so distant cousins certainly include Jeremiah and I’m sure a host of other shows and books I’ve never been exposed to or can’t recall.
