by Pete Lowman
2005
The philosophers saw it coming first: the contemporary crisis of pointlessness, of directionlessness, after the loss of God. 'The passing days, the wasted sensibility': to what extent is that our contemporary experience? One of the greatest British novelists, Joseph Conrad, described our destiny bleakly in Heart of Darkness as a 'mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose'. What is worth doing? What am I living for?
by Pete Lowman
2005
In the second of four articles, Pete Lowman asks what happens when a culture tries to live without God.
Now there’s no God, is it surprising … that we don’t know where we’re going?
“Maybe there’s a God, maybe not. It doesn’t matter too much.”
So we hear. Meanwhile, all around us, things are falling apart. And we wonder why.
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