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THE CHALLENGE
Earnestly trying to determine how to live can be complicated, even
bewildering at times. Our earthly existence is characterized by scarcity. We
have only so much time, money, talent and energy to allocate to the
conflicting demands of family, career and community. Americans have been
led to believe – by postmodern academia, Madison Avenue and purveyors of
popular culture – that true happiness can be attained by pursuing, first and
foremost, our own pleasure and comfort. We are promised that individual
autonomy will bring enduring contentment, comfort and freedom. We are
encouraged to think and speak first of our own rights and entitlements, which
seem to grow continually. We are told that we are entitled to have what we
want – now. We are assured that we have the right to be free from not only
respectful criticism of our choices but also often accountability for their
foreseeable consequences.
Ironically, instead of producing liberation and a thriving society, the culture’s
prescriptions have led to social disease, decay and disarray. How could one
conclude otherwise, given our rates of poverty, divorce, teen pregnancy, drug
addiction and violent crime?
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Earnestly trying to determine how to live can be complicated, even
bewildering at times. Our earthly existence is characterized by scarcity. We
have only so much time, money, talent and energy to allocate to the
conflicting demands of family, career and community. Americans have been
led to believe – by postmodern academia, Madison Avenue and purveyors of
popular culture – that true happiness can be attained by pursuing, first and
foremost, our own pleasure and comfort. We are promised that individual
autonomy will bring enduring contentment, comfort and freedom. We are
encouraged to think and speak first of our own rights and entitlements, which
seem to grow continually. We are told that we are entitled to have what we
want – now. We are assured that we have the right to be free from not only
respectful criticism of our choices but also often accountability for their
foreseeable consequences.
Ironically, instead of producing liberation and a thriving society, the culture’s
prescriptions have led to social disease, decay and disarray. How could one
conclude otherwise, given our rates of poverty, divorce, teen pregnancy, drug
addiction and violent crime?
Next >
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