Today’s Quote 3/18/07

It is characteristic of our age that people want to have God but do not want to have the Devil.  People are inventing gods for themselves, with what I have elsewhere called their do-it-yourself God Kits.  But they are gods who do not demand much of them, and they certainly are not gods who punish, although they are allowed to reward.  On the contrary, their gods absolve them from conflict and doubt, massage them…But above all they are gods who will not trouble them with the fact of evil.  The problems of evil, suffering, and death are not confronted, but evaded and dismissed.   Henry Fairlie