There is a certain kind of reasoning that is seemingly reasonable and yet entirely insufficient: we may most accurately call it madness. As Chesterton said, “The madman…has lost everything but his reason.”
Imagine, if you will, a person who demands to define himself: he is the god of his system and all will acknowledge his sovereign self.
To him we might say, with Chesterton, “So you are the Creator and Redeemer of the world: but what a small world it must be! What a little heaven you must inhabit…! How sad it must be to be God; and an inadequate God! Is there really no life fuller and no love more marvelous than yours; … How much happier you would be…if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos…free like other men to look up as well as down!”
This is the culture we reside within; we are demanded to submit to the whim of every discontented individual who seeks to see his malaise called health and his evil called good. It is not loving nor righteous to cooperate with the demands of a tyrant whether petty or governmental.
literaryjoe / Nate Long
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