Robert Johnson

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Is this not the logic we see play out in our own lives on a daily basis? “Do not show me the suffering that takes place in the dairy industry, for I love animals so much that I cannot bear to see such pain” or “Do not tell me where this shirt was made because I love children too much to hear of their horrific abuse in sweatshops.” Here our “beliefs” are nothing more than a form of Unbelief—they are the story we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to avoid the truth. It is Unbelief, because it is fully affirmed as what we believe, while being that which covers over what we actually do ...more
The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction
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