#worldliness

TO VOTE, OR NOT TO VOTE -- a Bill's Bible Basics series 

If you want the answer—ask the question.

The world and his life were opening up before him and he wanted to take full advantage of both (apart from anything else, there was always the Bomb, that lurking presence forever threatening to close it all back down again with one final, filthy splash of light that heralded the long darkness, and made a nonsense of any human plan, any dream of the future. Eat, drink and be merry, because tomorrow we blow up the world).

Death takes man out of the world, but initiation takes the world out of man.

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?

C.S.Lewis: the obsessive desire to be grown up and the love of worldly things because they make us feel good often takes us away from the faith we ought to have. Innocence should be treasured and revered, not cast aside in order to make us feel superior.