Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

at the space. He always liked churches, that was one of thethings that comforted him the most about religion was thegrand spaces where it was practiced. This was a space thatcouldn't quite exist in three-d reality. It was hard to keep one'seyes down in here. The panels of the ceiling were panoramasdepicting the predictions of Revelation using their event inhistory, up to and including the powering-up of NewJerusalem in Ceres.He strolled the aisle toward the pulpit, it was nearly athousand feet he thought, but the ceiling seemed to be muchlonger. He knew his faith in Jesus was secure, but hewondered how solid his faith was in the Christial church.How sure was he that the scenes depicted on this ceiling werereally what the Bible foretold? When he read the passages hesaw the armies and harlots and beasts and plagues as theylooked over two thousand years ago. He felt that no one inthe Bible had any idea the future would last so long. Thelanguages of the time did not have words for extrasolarplanets, digital simulation, genetic engineering, electronicsurveillance and a lot of other terms that were needed toexpress the reality of current life. Was that all there was to it?Was this what the Bible was trying to say but the language ofthe time couldn't support it?His footsteps echoed, a few others did also, up the sideaisle where the confessional was. He wondered whyTheology specified so grand a structure, an exact copy of thecathedral in New Jerusalem in 2175, a structure that had164