A Sad State of Affairs?
Rachel Dratch as "Debbie Downer" Google Image I often wonder if I’m being too negative in these blogs. After all, I don’t want them to be downers, because my purpose is to help people who have given up on God and/or religion to find God. And if you’re trying to find God in the Christian tradition, it has to be with a sense of joy and wonder. But you have to “call a spade, a spade,” like the prophets of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles do. I doubt that Isiah, Jeremiah and Micah, nor John the Baptist – nor Jesus himself – worried about being too negative. So, we have to listen to modern-day prophets, who, though they may not consider themselves spokespersons for God like the early prophets did, want to tell it like it is. Knowing ourselves makes us better. Not Necessarily Religious Many of these modern prophets are not necessarily “religious,” though David Brooks – the prophet taking much of the space of the rest of this blog – is obviously highly influenced by the mix of ...