The sea can teach harsh lessons about the First Commandment

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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I agree this was a really good series; very, very interesting.

PBS is great at things like this.