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For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.
-Jacques Ellul
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For In A Civilization Which Has Lost

Jacques Ellul
For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force.
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The world is full of people who have lost faith: politicians who have lost faith in politics, social workers who have lost faith in social work, schoolteachers who have lost faith in teaching and, for all i know, policemen who have lost faith in policing and poets who have lost faith in poetry. it's a condition of faith that it gets lost from time to time, or at least mislaid.
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A christian boy or girl can learn mathematics, for example, from a teacher who is not a christian; and truth is truth however learned. but while truth is truth however learned, the bearing of truth, the meaning of truth, the purpose of truth, even in the sphere of mathematics, seem entirely different to the christian from that which they seem to the non-christian; and that is why a truly christian education is possible only when christian conviction underlies not a part but all, of the curriculum of the school.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. no reality fits an ideology. life is beyond that. that is why people are always searching for a meaning to life. but life has no meaning; it cannot have meaning because meaning is a formula; meaning is something that makes sense to the mind. every time you make sense out of reality, you bump into something that destroys the sense you made . meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning.
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Western civilization has been in a state of decline since the edwardian age, say 1910. that was the height of greco-roman european civilization. then there was the first world war. that was the beginning of the end. that civilization has been in a decline ever since. but from the american triumphalist point of view our wonderful electronic revolution is really the forefront of an ongoing wonderful civilization.
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Faith and daily life, faith and work-these are not separate things. they are one and the same. to think of them as separate-that faith is faith, and work is work-is theoretical faith. based on the recognition that work and faith are one and the same, we should put one hundred percent of our energy into our jobs and one hundred percent into our faith, too. when we resolve to do this, we enter the path of victory in life. faith means to show irrefutable proof of victory amid the realities of society and in our own daily lives.
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