Our readings in this series are from the book, Understanding the Times Here is a brief excerpt from page 80:
“Christians must understand the problem of evil, and bear in mind at all times that the evil that sings the glories of violence, incivility, lasciviousness, greed, inanity, and self-interest everywhere in the field of the world is a death rattle, and not a victory song.
“The Christian worldview alone provides a cogent and consistent explanation for the cause and persistence of evil in the world, as well as the effective means for dealing with it. Eastern religions, with their doctrine of reincarnation, should by now have improved the lot of most of their kind, by successive reincarnations into higher states of goodness. But this is not what we see.
“Islam, insisting that sharia law is the way to a just society, has been able to persuade almost no one that this is true, except those it manages to cow at the point of a sword.
“Totalitarianism? We know where that’s been filed.
“Pragmatic capitalism? Do the words greed, corruption, oppression, and the like portend hope for a less evil world?
“Postmodernism? Sorry, but postmodernism, on its own terms, can’t explain anything.
“These worldviews – which presume to have solutions for dealing with the evil of the world – only add to that evil, if only by degrees.”
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