I’ve been enjoying watching the PBS series Carrier, showing an extended overseas deployment of the USS Nimitz. Between college and law school I did two similar deployments aboard the USS Enterprise.
The episode I watched last night examined some of the religious beliefs of different crew members — but only after a segment showing how dangerous it can be to try to land airplanes on a pitching deck in rough seas.
The rough-seas segment offered a religious lesson of another sort, a harsh reminder that the First Commandment has a secular counterpart: Survival requires us to face the facts, to deal as best we can with the reality that God wrought, instead of insisting on trying to live in a bubble created by our own wishful thinking.
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