Posted on 04/12/2004 9:39:37 PM PDT by coffeebreak
In such a meaningless existence, the only purpose is whatever instant gratification can be found, and why have any restrictions on same?
Yeah, the step into secular materialism often starts philosophically with something like the darwinian "creation" story and it ends with a person who is devoted to his own appetites.
Isn't this the only "logical" option? [without any knowledge of God, that is] Logically the blind [those without any knowledge of God] will become Epicureans, devoted wholly to their own sensual pleasure, within certain "reasonable" bounds of course.
And if you look at who we have become as a society of late, the balance of our population is teetering very closely to the majority operating out of pure self interest.
Only God can rescue us from this body of death preceeded by as much sensula pleasure as we can take, as I'm sure you know LJ. We need to be praying for our Nation and working with people locally, that it/they would see its/their sin for what it is and repent.
ThirstyMan
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