Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
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Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
Existentially, the problem with idolatry is that it is an exercise in futility, a penchant that ends in profound dissatisfaction and unhappiness. Idolatry, we might say, doesn’t “work”—which is why it creates restless hearts. In idolatry we are enjoying what we’re supposed to be using.
from On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts by James K. A. Smith
- I grew up believing what all modern people are taught: that freedom meant lack of constraint. Orthodoxy taught me that this freedom was no freedom at all, but enslavement to the passions: a neat description of the first thirty years of my life. True freedom, it turns out, is to give up your will and follow God’s. To deny yourself. To let it come. I... See more
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