Because Life is about Serving
Photo by Anaya Katlego on Unsplash In The Hacking of the American Mind, Robert H. Lustig describes Christians believing that "happiness will occur there and later as opposed to here and now. Life is unpleasant, but if you live it as an upstanding Christian, heaven awaits. Pleasure was the devil on earth, and pain in the form of humility and service was the path to a happy afterlife, a gift from God" (page 20, emphasis mine). This brief (and somewhat misrepresented) description of Christianity reveals several things about the world's perspective of Christianity. First, it reveals just how foolish Christianity looks to the world. Reading this description from an earthly-minded perspective causes one to turn away from it with one simple thought: What fool would choose to believe and live out such utter nonsense? However, even as a warped representation of Christianity, Lustig's description validates what Scripture reveals about the world's un