Dumb and Dumber

How the West Was Lost

The dominant--indeed, established--religion of our day is materialistic atheism.  Put into doctrinal form, its profession of faith is as follows:

All that exists is matter: there is nothing else.
Matter exists by chance.

Naturally, these two proposition result in a rather barren, empty existence.  It is impossible to make any  meaning of one's life, let alone the cosmos.  It is hard to believe anything when everything is supposedly irrational.

In order to cope with the resultant crisis, folk just invent things.  Consequently, most in the West live in a make-believe world--one made up to impart the appearance of sense, meaning, significance and rationality.  It can be described as living in a make-believe world viewed through Alice's looking glass.

One pop manifestation of this make-believe world is a near universal belief in luck, or the "stars".  From the Christian perspective it comes as no surprise at all that our popular culture is deeply wedded to astrology--the belief that astral bodies providentially govern some, if not all, things in the world.