Sad State: Cynicism

 I am heartened by those who have written in support of a Christian worldview, hoping also that others may question what they believe and reconsider the gospel rather than the cant it is often enveloped in.

Certainly it’s difficult to disagree with people on many fronts and not appear totally adversarial and thereby alienate people. It is certainly not my intention. As a Christian I feel it essential to defend truth categorically, realising at the same time what a lofty ideal this is.

When I read Joe Bennett’s column and others with a similar outlook I am struck by the cynicism of their remonstrations. I am frankly saddened by it. I think there is a tiredness in what they preach. Their work betrays the inner angst of soul. Perhaps they believe freshness only belongs to the young and naive.

  Those who use the excuse that God did not give them enough evidence to believe in Him- are simply using a smokescreen that they have convinced themselves is actually an impenetrable fog- not of their own making. This then justifies a life committed to serving ones own ends. In admitting the existence of God we are immediately called into an unavoidable moral accountability- and it is this we instinctively seek to avoid at all costs- and what a high cost it is.  

Ultimately people are more than a protégé of truth or reason. Our mind, passions, will, smiles, tears, aches and joys bear cogent witness to our spiritual nature, how empty the reduction of humanity to the firing of synaptic neurons or “dancing to our DNA.”