the other tension…
Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised
After discussing the tensions in postmodernism, I wonder if there is another tension in our postmodern make-up…
In the world it is called tolerance but in hell it is called dispair. The sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, enjoys nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing but remains alive because there is nothing which it would die for.Dorothy L Sayers
A Princeton student being interviewed by a reporter was questioned about the prospect of American troops going to Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded there. “There’s nothing worth dying for” was her response. Which means of course that one day she shall have the unpleasant task of dying for nothing.Stanley Hawerwas and William H. Willimon
(The first is quoted in ‘Finding God at Harvard’; the second is from ‘Resident Aliens’.)
Tags: culture, postmodernism, worldview
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