Post modernism is real. Rhbill, contraception, divorce bill, anti Church, anti clergy. It appears that modern man, influenced by unbridled secularism is shouting: God leave us alone!. On the other hand a modern philosopher, explained that modern man is like a man holding a torch in midday shouting, where is God? where is God? God seems to be absent, more so secularist thinking pushes him aside, which I think, is unconsciously in as much as they presumed that God should not enter human, legal, and social affairs.
On the other hand, when reason becomes the rule of the day, and the more science, technology and rationality is developing fast the human spirit looks for something beyond and transcendent. We cannot deny the inner yearning of man towards the absolute, transcendent being. And the more God is being pushed aside the more that man seems to feel His absence. Man is homesick of paradise, of communion with Him, of His loving presence. He shouts, where is God? where is God?
So the pendulum continues. Secularism is a reaction of too much wrong notion of God and too much absence of the old notion of God would bounce into a deeper yearning and union with the true God. The man who cries “My God, why have you Forsaken me” is at the same time the source of the return of a more true and loving God.
Do I condemn secularist thinking to hell? Do we need to shun the atheist?. I would not dare to do so. They open for the new dawn and springtime so that the true God of history, the God who made Himself man be more evident in its true face, which is the Resurrection, be more “known” once again in history.
But one needs to be patient, loving and merciful, like Him on the cross. Post modern man is the new face of a God-man, who cries why did God forsake him, and the true face of God will be once again savoury experienced by him.
