Recapture the Wonder

by Ravi Zacharias

In philosophy, he takes us through the ponderous musings of thinkers with their singular ability to climb the ladder of abstraction. Volumes, debates, and arguments abounded in early Greece. They spared no verbiage in their attempts to transcend the physical and grasp the metaphysical. In the end they arrived at descriptions of gods and goddesses in squandered and perverse loves, in fact, in worse moral shape than humanity. Mythologies filled their pages, with seductions and betrayals at every turn. Truth became elusive and the conscience was still left empty. As someone said of ancient Greece,“The Greeks abandoned their gods not because the people became so immoral, but because their gods became so immoral.”