by jam 3 Replies latest jw experiences
From the book Rumors by Philip Yancey.
Vaclav Ha vei, former president of the Czech Republic.
"I believe that with the loss of God, man has a lost a kind
of absolute and universal system of coordinates, to which
he could always relate everything, chiefly himself.
His world and his personality gradually begain to break
up into separate, incoherent fragments corresponding
to different, relative, coordinates."
What ye say, agree or not agree?
Maybe we are evolving?
watson,possible.
I can see why he (Havel) may feel that way.
He states,"he saw Marxist rape of his land as a direct
outgrowth of atheism. I come from a country where the
forests are dying, where rivers look like sewers, and where
in some places the citizens are sometimes recommended
not to open their windows," he said, tracing the cause to
the "arrogance of the new age human beings who enthroned
themselves as lords of all nature and of all the world."
Such people lack a metaphysical ancor: "I mean, a humble
respect for the whole of creation and awareness of our
obligations to it... If the parents believe in God, their children
will not have to wear gas masks on their way to school and
their eyes will not be blinded with pus."
I think he had a distaste for Marxism.
I think we do need to respect the whole of 'creation'. Our obligation surely is to look after our planet because it is our home and if we damage it beyond repair we have nowhere else to go.
