Beware the 'Current-Events Man'
On being rooted in eternity rather than reaching for real-time hope
In his book Propaganda Jacques Ellul writes:
This situation makes the 'current-events man' a ready target for propaganda. Indeed, such a man is highly sensitive to the influence of present-day currents; lacking landmarks, he follows all currents.
He is unstable because he runs after what happened today; he relates to the event, and therefore cannot resist…
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