The Problem

It's so easy for young cynical teenagers fresh off World History class or rock metal or Neitzsche or whatever hip groovy materials they're absorbing to claim that Christianity is the root of all problems. The problem is certainly not Christianity per se. The problem is people's bewildering need to inflexibly, unreasonably, and infallibly adhere to a single source that they view as transcendent and/or worthy of reverence. It can be the Bible, or it can be the Founding Fathers of our country. It can be the power of our scientific technology or our still-limited knowledge of the universe. Either way, I think such unyielding belief in anything man-made is silly at best and an obstruction to adaptability and open thinking.