‘Once upon a time’ a man was drawing large crowds, had become quite popular, was being followed by way more people than most would expect. Do you think he feed that popularity, rallied the cause, catered to what would appeal to even larger throngs? No, not quite...
“The natural person does not accept the things of the [Divine] for they are folly to him…” Man, left to create his own identity, may well create his own Hell...
Our current cultural fascination with creating our own identities is beginning to show the same weakness that my grandfather faced fifty-ish years ago. Creating our own identity rests upon the foundation of our inability to be God...
“Nearly half of Americans (47%) describe themselves as religious, another 33% say they are spiritual but not religious, and 2% volunteer they are “both.” Although the vast majority of U.S. adults have one of these orientations toward the nonphysical world, the 18% who say they are neither religious nor spiritual is twice the proportion Gallup measured when it first asked this question in 1999.”