For two years I have been urging people to read (or re-read) Orwell's 1984. "Yeah, yeah," they'll say, "I suppose I should" - but they don't. Repeatedly, a phrase uttered by Thomas a Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral comes to mind: "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." Indeed.
Nations are awash in good folks who believe if th…
For two years I have been urging people to read (or re-read) Orwell's 1984. "Yeah, yeah," they'll say, "I suppose I should" - but they don't. Repeatedly, a phrase uttered by Thomas a Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral comes to mind: "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." Indeed.
Nations are awash in good folks who believe if they just ignore it or weather the storm, it will go away. Why? Because they truly believe no government or government leader is that evil. And does that not point to the fact we have, in the main, reached full Post-Christian status (at least in North America and Europe): If a person does not believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent God, how can they embrace the reality of the despicable demonic?
For two years I have been urging people to read (or re-read) Orwell's 1984. "Yeah, yeah," they'll say, "I suppose I should" - but they don't. Repeatedly, a phrase uttered by Thomas a Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral comes to mind: "Mankind cannot bear very much reality." Indeed.
Nations are awash in good folks who believe if they just ignore it or weather the storm, it will go away. Why? Because they truly believe no government or government leader is that evil. And does that not point to the fact we have, in the main, reached full Post-Christian status (at least in North America and Europe): If a person does not believe in an omnipotent, omnipresent God, how can they embrace the reality of the despicable demonic?