Proximity + Politics

The Problem of Proximity

People often ask, “Why isn’t God more obvious?” It could be smog. It could be sin. It could be that the byproducts of the brokenness we have produced in this world block our view of anything beyond what we have made. It could be that most of our time is spent bent forward distracting ourselves with the problems of our day rather than leaning back to ponder if there is a Grand One who transcends us and solves problems. It could be the problem of proximity. The majesty of an all-powerful God shines forth in creation and in our hearts but fades out in the little lights of items that beckon us to worship them.

This is all a bit silly. Just think, there is an all-powerful God that is the foundation of love and loves eternally, and yet I cannot see this God because of little loves in my proximity which function at a negligible fraction of divine love. There is an all-knowing eternal God that desires for me to know Him as God, but I cannot grasp it and so God seems distant because God isn’t provable within my definition of knowledge.                                                   --Nathan Rittenhouse, Slice of Infinity 7/2

Political Potpourri

If you watched either or both of the two Democratic Party presidential candidate debates, and if you are a liberal, a conservative or a centrist, you had to have been depressed. The intellectual shallowness, the demagoguery and the alienation from reality were probably unprecedented in American political history. Only a leftist, a socialist or a communist could have gone to bed a happy person on either night.

--Dennis Prager, Townhall 7/2