I can’t escape the conclusion that this writer is arguing for the virtue of ignorance. Its true that a direct experience of distant nebulae is impossible but it impoverishes a vperson to present they don’t exist. As recently as rthe 18th century serious people suggested that the sun was a mass of burning coal. I do not see any spiritual elevation in pretending that this is true
I may speak only for myself but the growing understanding of our universe has not in any way diminishged my sense of wonder and an almost giddy feeling of majesty. My world is not flat.
As a great man once said, “That is certainly a lot of words.”
I’ll not waste more time on this other than to say that the author is delusional if he believes that “total war” is a recent phenomenon. If anything, modern technology has made it more, not less, possible to provide for individual and collective defense against those who would seek to enslave and/or destroy.
tl;dr
I have long held in my personal belief system that electric light has done much to destroy the average person's appreciation of the infinite. Throughout history till the 20th Century, all one had to do is to look at the moonless night sky and there was the infinite in their face. Now air and light pollution makes it difficult to see all but the brightest celestial objects and that difficulty discourages many from even trying.
As for the remainder of this article, I can appreciate the author's concepts but I have never been literalist in wondering how high heaven was in altitude. Yes we retain the same 5 senses that our ancestors did and like them we are limited in our personal sphere of perceptions BUT with the knowledge that is built by standing on the shoulders of previous year's giants, we are not so limited in only those senses to know of the things beyond.
Franky Schaeffer isn't going to be offended after all.