Our readings in this series are from the book, Understanding the Times Here is a brief excerpt from pages 68 and 69:
“The fact is that relying on our own selves – catering to our best ideas, following our latest whims, or even pursuing our most passionately self-serving dreams and desires – can be treacherous ground on which to take one’s stand in life. The religion of secularism is a landscape of shifting sands, unseen bogs and quagmires, mine fields, and box canyons. And still, millions of people choose to devote themselves by acts of sheer faith to realizing the happiness of self through experiences, possessions, and position or status.
“And they complain that the Christian faith is strange and doesn’t make sense?
“Which only goes to prove, I think, that those who exchange the truth about God for the false hopes of the exalted self, are not only finite, fallible, and fickle. They’re simply fools. They deceive themselves and others that they know what’s best for them, and they can manage their experiences, stuff, and relationships to ensure maximum personal happiness and fulfillment. The evidence of our ennui-plagued generation points, I think, to another conclusion.
“But they are fools who deserve, not our scorn, but our attention, compassion, love, and witness.”
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