Suppose you were unhappy. Suppose you had a doctor's appointment for your annual check-up and while you were sitting there half-naked on an examining table, you said, "I just feel kind of down lately."
I'm feeling kind of blue lately.
Life just seems to suck lately.
I'm not very happy.
We can't have that, can we? We can't have people going around not being happy. It cannot be allowed or accepted. It is not normal. It is untenable. It is unsustainable.
We cannot say, "Yeah? Life does suck sometimes." No, we cannot.
We say that little qualifier-- "sometimes" because we can't bear to say, "life sucks".
Life sucks, and then you die.
So if you aren't happy, we will prescribe you a drug. Why? Because that is best solution to the problem of life? No.
To make life good, we would have to find someone to love you, make you rich, make you safe and healthy, and make our cities livable.
That would be too hard to do. So we will zoloft you. We will prozac or paxil you instead.
There really is no clearer indication of just how pagan our society has become. It doesn't matter what you think is going to happen after this life is over. None of us, Christian or non-Christian, is going to accept a life in this world that is not happy.
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