The Seduction of Science

We cannot deny that science has given man many things he thought he wanted. But this same science has now presented us the most dreaded gift ever bestowed upon humanity. The life and future of every living being on this planet is affected by this gift of science. It stands like a somber shadow behind our waking thoughts. It stalks like a specter of horror through our children’s dreams. We pretend it isn’t there. We try to pretend that we haven’t received this gift, that it’s all a joke, and that some morning we’ll wake up and find that we haven’t conquered outer space and that nuclear weaponry has never been perfected- but our morning newspaper tell s us a different story.

There are other paths, of course, and many are traveling them this very moment. There are the paths of fame and fortune, of pleasure and power. None of them leads anywhere but deeper into the mire. We are ensnared in the web of our own thinking, trapped so cleverly and so completely that we can no longer see either the cause or the cure of the disease that is inflicting such deadly pain.

If it is true that “for every illness there is a cure,” then we must make haste to find it. The sand in civilization’s hourglass is rapidly falling away, and if there is a path that leads to the light, if there is a way back to spiritual health, we must not lose and hour!