How the HELL Do You Make an Impact in this Culture?
“But it was you, it was me, it was every man. We’ve all got the blood on our hands. We only we receive what we demand. And if we want HELL, then hell is what we’ll have.”
Jack Johnson, Cookie Jar
The following lyric is a powerful insight into our culture and how to effectively address it. There are a lot of people now claiming this world is going to hell. Not the literal, religiously backed hell, but that the world is heading in the wrong and dangerous direction. We can argue this version of hell from all sorts of viewpoints and biases. Is it a moral hell, that needs a removal of “sin” and “sinners?” Is it a dogmatic, unenlightened hell, requiring the removal of the fundamental moralist or the Maga Extremists? Does the right, or the left have the best answers to get us out of this hell?
A myriad of people attempt to address this. They offer their ideas from inside their worldviews and political leanings. The problem is that there are often two responses to this line of discourse: Acceptance or Retraction.
Regardless of the assertions and groundings of one’s point; the biases create the audience.
Cultural headway becomes an illusion. People rarely sway, and it is nearly impossible to change the worldview of another. Yet we try. Over and over. Atheists…
