We live in an immense supermarket. Everything is available, often in innumerable forms and shades. We spend most of our time walking through the shelfs, pondering whether we want this kind of peanut butter or that kind, often forgetting that we don’t really need any. Our culture has little patience with metaphysical systems, with eternal truths, with God(s), with anything that sounds or promises to be everlasting. After all, that would not be good for business. We are fast multitaskers, alw...
