Facts are inversely proportional to the
demand for them.
--Miles O'Brien
Over the weekend, I heard this
statement. For those unaware, Miles O'Brien used to be a news anchor
at CNN (husband of Soledad O'Brien), and was on CNN because he is an
expert on some aspect of avaition, from which the Malaysian Airlines
mystery has brought seemingly every person with such a background
onto the tv for commentary. It is in that context that O'Brien made
that statement.
To my mind, it immediately connected
to my thoughts on the problem of communication of the message of
Jesus to the culture I live in here in North America. Since I have
been out of college, which goes back to the mid-1970's, I rarely run
into any non-believer with interest in the things of God, in part
because of the overwhelming amount of free “information”--some
good, but much that is, unfortunately, empty excitement and hype.
Excitement and hype can be fun, as any professionally done
entertainment, but it is nothing more than that. Further, sometimes
it is labelled as the moving of the Holy Spirit, and I do not know
how in words to define how to seperate the two, but if one is there
(as opposed to watching or listening to something recorded) one might
be able to seperate them in one's spirit, although I am quite certain
I have missed on that over time, also.
How does one create demand for what one wishes to communicate? I don't know. At a gut level, I am averse to the common idea, both in secular and church backgrounds, of just throwing money at it.
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