OUR MODERN MATERIALISM
Our west European culture has certainly changed during the last 100-150 years. It has been marked by industrialization, mechanization, growth of huge cities, astro-physics, and the triumph of practical reason and science. It has all given rise to a more convenient and easy lifestyle. Where would we be without electricity, cars, mobile phones, aeroplanes, computers?
However our contemporary culture also has its downsides (materialism, ugliness, greed, chaos, waste, murder and mayhem) and superficiality. It seems to lack a spiritually ordered harmony and pleasing way of life.
Our modern materialistic culture, however practical and beneficial, seems not enough to satisfy the human heart or human society. It tends to make material and scientific progress the ultimate values. The beautiful Christian story has faded away. It needs a re-telling.
However our contemporary culture also has its downsides (materialism, ugliness, greed, chaos, waste, murder and mayhem) and superficiality. It seems to lack a spiritually ordered harmony and pleasing way of life.
Our modern materialistic culture, however practical and beneficial, seems not enough to satisfy the human heart or human society. It tends to make material and scientific progress the ultimate values. The beautiful Christian story has faded away. It needs a re-telling.