Turd Ferguson and the Philosophy of Hope – The American Conservative

For many, comedy is a cynical exercise of enumerating the irrational absurdities of life. Not so for Norm, as he said: Smart man says nothing is a miracle. I say everything is. He went out of his way to see and name the miraculous beauty of creation. Norm was to Christianity what Woody Allen is to atheism. He didn t talk about the world for a living out of resentment or anger, but out of love and boyish curiosity. It was as if we were the blind man and he was taking us all on a walk, careful to describe the normal, mundane objects around us in such a way that we could see the world afresh.

The Enlightenment turned us away from truth and toward a darkling weakening horizon, sad and grey to see, tweeted Norm, The afterglow of Christianity is near gone now, and a stygian silence lurks in wait. Norm Macdonald lived in an enchanted cosmos bright in color, teaming with life. Norm saw differently, and therefore more, than secular man. His eyes didn t just look at brute objects, but through them, seeing the internal coherence and grandeur of nature.

via www.theamericanconservative.com

Norm is guffawing at this, but I say it’s fair.