Read It (and weep)
This entry was posted on 10/29/2006 7:54 AM and is filed under Spirituality.
David Warren of the Ottawa Citizen asks, "...how do we find our way out of the wilderness that has grown in the heart of man?" If you think he is overstating, grab a newspaper or watch 15 minutes of TV.
"The question is, how do we find our way out of the wilderness that has grown in the heart of man? How does a society, a whole civilization, that is on the skids and bound for destruction, arrest its slide? I pose this today in the broadest possible way, because I think it is the one, common, practical, and even political question that should remain near the front of all minds capable of charity and goodwill.
The obvious answer, to those who realize that our civilization was built not only by human hands, but under the guidance of Church and religion, is to counsel a re-centring, a return to God. But for those who have moved and been moved so far away, that the very idea of God chills them, what paths lie open?"
Read it all, here. If you do not then feel a pang of remorse (followed by a deep sense of foreboding) you are either very young, fatally distracted or one of the "posthuman moderns" of whom Warren speaks.
