My CMS The View from a New City

At the store this morning, I saw a young father and his four children Christmas shopping. The children appeared to be from ten to one in age. They looked liked they were enjoying themselves. My heart went out to them.

This scene is so different from anything portrayed in modern media about what the good life is. I contend that this young father is more successful than any striving executive. I hope his wife is happy with the presents they bought her.

Today I read a description of Postmodernism: It is the belief that everything about human culture is a fiction created by humans. And it is true that much of culture is a game, created by human beings. Not only sports but business, politics, national identity, and even much that goes under the heading of religion.

My investigation of the facts of existence has convinced me that human life and the world we are allowed to live in were created by God for the experience and benefit of human beings and that God will reveal its significance and purpose to those who seek him with sincerity and faith.

The prophet Nephi truthfully described the world view that would prevail in the modern world more than two thousand years ago:

4 And they shall contend one with another; and their priests shall contend one with another, and they shall teach with their learning, and deny the Holy Ghost, which giveth utterance.

5 And they deny the power of God, the Holy One of Israel; and they say unto the people: Hearken unto us, and hear ye our precept; for behold there is no God today, for the Lord and the Redeemer hath done his work, and he hath given his power unto men;

6 Behold, hearken ye unto my precept; if they shall say there is a miracle wrought by the hand of the Lord, believe it not; for this day he is not a God of miracles; he hath done his work.

2 Nephi 28