Thursday, December 1, 2016

Philisophical Baggage

Secular philosophies upon subjects like free will and moral relativism are very tidy, but examined closely you will never find such ideologies alive in their advocates. A moral relativist will protest injustice and unfairness. A Determinist will demand accountability from himself and those around him. An Atheist rejects nihilism. Antinatalists are rarely themselves unhappy.

Dead philosophies versus living water. An idea that gives no life serves only to salve one’s conscience or inflate one’s ego.  The gospel is meant to be alive in you and propel you forward, not help you to hide.  We would do well to ask if our pet philosophies and ideas actually propel us, or are they merely convenient intellectual constructs to address problems leveled at us, heuristics to smooth over the bumps in life?  Such things may have their place, but that place is generally a rather small one.

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