Things to go bump in the night, January 15, 2024. Introduction. I think it is safe to say that many Christians have extricated themselves from the materialistic account of the Cosmos.

This is great so far as it goes, but we have now entered an era when we need to take measures to keep ourselves from overshooting into various superstitions and old wives tales.

We do live in a haunted cosmos, but we don't live in a haunted one, if you know what I mean.

Okay, maybe you don't know what I mean. Transition time.

When I say a materialistic account I'm referring to the idea that the Cosmos is

mostly nothing, a vacuum punctuated here and there with dead rocks and flaming gases.

This paradigm was so pervasive for so long

that many ostensibly conservative Christians wound up living in the same basic cosmos

as Christopher Hitchins thought he did, only with God and some angels at the top, and teeny tiny

souls down here inside of us.

Everything else in between was the same, empty space, dead rock, flaming gases.

But the default assumptions of many Christians are very different now.

This is largely the responsibility of C.S. Lewis,

Screw tape, discarded image, Narnia, that hideous strength.

His very clear intention throughout his writings was to insinuate

the beginnings of a cosmological revolution in the minds of Christians. In this he largely

succeeded and I applaud the success. We are greatly in its debt for many reasons, but this is one of them.

Quote, in our world said Eustace, a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.

Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

Sius Lewis, the voice of the dawn treader.

Quote, a nightmare long engendered in the modern mind by the mythology that follows in the wake of science was falling off him. He had read of space at the back of his thinking for years had lurked the dismal fancy of the black cold vacuity, the utter deadness which was supposed to separate the worlds. He had not known how much it

affected him till now. Now that the very name space seemed to blasphemous libel for this

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