The modern era exa ts man and h s needs, and it 5 at total war aga ost the fa th that nec ares man to be a 5 noer. Revolut on is ne n to prov de the answer. Revolition is seen as personal and ci tural shock therapy. The ce ief nas been that the murner of man's past is h1s liberation oto a glor nit fiture. The resi ts have neen he I on earth, but the nevorit onists never o ame tnemseives for it.
Mocern man refuses to be eartn-bound.
The prouc American boast after the first space flight showed an astronaut as a newly born bany. With this new goc- ike status, man, some held, would guide h.s own evoljtion, clone himself, and overcome space. time and ceath. There is an order and a progression from the seed, to the first green shoot to emerge, to the cult vated growth. I stil recall m7 pity and revulsion for a prominent American pastor who, after Wor d War II, wanted people to spend tneir time praying for a specoy Second Corn ng of Christ. Ojs of all K.ngdom ourldFng as wasteW of time ano money.