8/21/12 Devon, Sean college students
Two
college-aged skateboarders at Chicago's lakefront looked like they might have
time for a chat, so I stopped them and asked about their spiritual
beliefs. Devon, a student at Loyola, and
Sean, a student at DePaul, had grown up Hindu and Catholic respectively, but
both had abandoned their traditional beliefs in favor of pseudo-scientific
energy-field theories more on the order of the movie "Avatar". It didn't take long for some common-sense
questions to reveal inconsistencies in these beliefs. Sean said "I believe everything was
created at some point, but I don't believe in a creator." Devon stated he believed everything just exploded
into existence in the Big Bang.
"What was it that exploded?" I asked. No idea. They had never
thought about it. In their mind the fact
that science has a theory about the origins of the universe is as good as
saying it has been proven. They never
considered that scientists want us to believe that "nothing created
everything". "Do you have a
purpose in life?" They are both
business students and simply want to make a decent living and live in
comfort. Sean soon admitted "To be honest, this is the first time
I've ever thought about things like this.
I was just making it up as I went along". Devon agreed, so I asked "You are preparing for your future
career, but how are you preparing for eternity?" Although they were interested enough to talk
with me, they weren't interested enough to consider the possibility of God's
existence or any responsibility toward Him. They refused to take any further information about
the Bible because, as Devon explained, "I probably won't get around to
reading it anyway." Many of their
generation feel no need to seek after God.
We will be waiting a long time, if ever, for these young people to ask
us about our faith or want to come with us to church. In Romans 3, Paul quoted Psalm 14: "There are none who seek after God." Outside of God's grace and the prayers of his
Church, I find this to be more and more true.
Maybe its time for more of us to do the seeking...
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