7 March

Another hero of mine, Charles Péguy. He became a Catholic later in life, but understood religion in a much different way to others then and now. I only recently discovered he shared the same belief, that the ‘modern’ world is defined by the belief that we sit ‘in’ time and ‘in’ space. And then all that’s left for religion is belief in a supernatural being ‘outside’ time and space. Disastrous nonsense, Péguy said. I love this insight of his too. I think idealism is the disease of the planet, meaning trying to live by ideals. Mysticism, the belief in ‘objective’ truths separate to our lives. Péguy lived that disaster firsthand, his life ended young with a bullet to the forehead, fighting for others’ ideals, on the battlefields of WW1.