"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair."
-C.S. Lewis 1952 Mere Christianity
Are we scared of truth? More than the kind of truth we read in the papers. Or the kind of truth in the whispers heard around the water cooler.
Real truth. Truth that speaks to the very nature of our existence. The kind of truth that can't be altered by changes in the weather, shifts in culture, wars, fads or feelings. The kind of truth that explains the origin of the world. The reason why I eat and breathe.
I find it interesting that in a generation that demands nothing but the truth there can be so much the very mention of God sends people in an uproar by the masses.
Why?
It wasn't even a hundred years ago that the majority of the world defined it's decisions from government to business to family to neighborhoods by a higher being, most often referred to as God.
History shows us that there are dangerous repercussions to getting the understanding of God wrong (ie. the crusades and many other over zealous acts), but is there some truth behind the belief in God that has lasted so long throughout time.
Hm. That's an uncomfortable thought.
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