Broken Reeds

                                                                                                               Vol. XXIII, No. 9, Nov/Dec 2010

All the ideologies we've examined in this section are pallid imitations of the Christian gospel. They promise to free people from oppression (or neurosis, or whatever else they define as the problem) and create the New Man, build the New Society, usher in the New Age. Clinging to the beauty of the gospel's hope but wanting none of the gospel's requirements, they recast it as the Escalator Myth, a fallacy of progress, promising that we can create a new life through politics, sex, science, or Eastern spirituality. But all of these worldviews are defective, inadequate substitutes for the real need of real people for real redemption.

     Chuck Colson & Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live, (Tyndale House, 1999) p. 275