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\"04-03-16<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Are you standing on Asia Prodigal?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 Yeah just look at this map of the world.\u00a0 Thinking about different parts of the world.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 I can share from a Polish writer today.<\/p>\n

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The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980, has an interesting point to make here.\u00a0 Having found himself intellectually bullied and politically silenced, first under Nazism and then under Stalinism, Milosz had no doubt as to the ultimate source of despair and tyranny in the twentieth century.\u00a0 In a remarkable essay entitled ”\u00a0 The Discreet Charm of Nihilism,”\u00a0 he pointed out that it was not religion, but its denial -above all, the denial of accountability in the sight of God–that lay at the root of the century’s oppressive totalitarianism.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Religion, opium for the people!\u00a0 To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in afterlife.\u00a0 And now we are witnessing a transformation.\u00a0 A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.\u00a0 The Marxist creed has now been inverted.\u00a0 The true opium of modernity is the belief that there is no God, so that humans are free to do precisely as they please.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Matthew 6:23<\/p>\n

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.\u00a0 If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n

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