We begin (as individuals and as a species) as inhabitants of an animistic world; a world in which every-thing - all phenomena - are understood as due to the purposive actions of Beings.
This, I believe, is true (I mean; we really do live in an animistic world) --- except for entropy.
Entropy represents primordial chaos, before Creation; and the tendency for this to return. The endemic and pervasive tendency for that which-is-created to return to chaos.
(Entropy - evident in degeneration, disease, ageing, and biological death) is what is termed "death" in the Fourth Gospel.)
This mortal world is therefore in a dynamic state of flux, in which divine creation continues amidst entropy.
Entropy is the only phenomenon which is impersonal:
chaos is "a thing", not a Being.
Modernity has focused upon this phenomenon of entropy, and modernity has made entropy its one and omnipotent god.
Entropy is a god that is unalive, without purpose, without consciousness, without meaning or values.
A god of abstract models, of mathematics and geometry, forces and energies, laws and processes...
And modernity has made itself in the image of its god: entropy.
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