Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Vision of the Future

I was looking for something to read today, so took Wie können wir denn leben? (How shall we then live?) off a shelf. It was prescribed by one of my professors, Dr. Francis Schaefffer (he wrote it). As I often do, I started reading back to front. Published 44 years ago, he gave his thoughts on the future. He wrote: computers might retain one's whole history, there could be global terrorism, increasingly influential media, a general drift away from democracy, dwindling resources, and so on. OBSERVATION: He missed some things, and got some things wrong, but he is close enough to be unsettling. Being a Christian writer, he ends by recommending freedom within God-given restraints, and a life lived for Him.

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