Mike understands that intellectual nihilism reflects an underlying spiritual despair. There must also be a connection between artists' disdain for those 'classes' that still believe in God and their delight in confronting those rubes with offensive images, such as the photograph of a cross dipped in a jar of urine. Mike swears that he remains a child of the sixties, with no leanings to neo-conservative politics. Nevertheless, we would all agree that this culture is nearly overwhelmed by all the bullshit and bad faith, by the literally spellbinding vacuity, top to bottom, left to right. Criswell students tell Mike that the stumbling block is pride, and he admits that he is afraid of looking like a fool.
Secularism is the easy road today.
Telling friends with Ph. The irony is that those friends are undoubtedly relativists about everything except a few pet ideas like the death of God. Mike can't help thinking that these inconsistent relativists must be absolutely right. His problem isn't just with the fundamentalists' inerrancy doctrine, or their regretful insistence that unbelievers go to hell. Mike has some attractive alternatives.