Monday was a pagan day in America.
A giant solar eclipse moved all the way across the United States over the course of the day.
There are a couple of different ways you can view a solar eclipse.
If you are a normal person, you’d view the solar eclipse as a wonderful example of science at work, an incredible example of the workings of the universe in which the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon — the workings of the rotations of the universe and the solar system. That’s really cool.
Before they knew any of the science, traditional religions suggested that things like solar eclipses — which rarely appeared and were also very scary to people — were the heavens moving in response to human sin. Human beings would sin, and then God would respond with a solar eclipse.
The other way to view it from a religious perspective would be to say that this is amazing and wonderful evidence of…
