Missing reality, preoccupied with fantasy
Ray Ortlund Blog | May 8, 2012
"A strange thing I have observed over many years in this business of news gathering and news presentation is that by some infallible process media people always manage to miss the most important thing. It's almost as though there were some built-in propensity to do this. In moments of humility, I realize that if I had been correspondent in the Holy Land at the time of our Lord's ministry, I should almost certainly have spent my time knocking about with the entourage of Pontius Pilate, finding out what the Sanhedrin was up to, and lurking around Herod's court with the hope of signing up Salome to write her memoirs exclusively. I regret that this is true. Ironically enough, as the dramatization of the public scene gains impetus, so we move farther and farther from the reality of things and become more and more preoccupied with fantasy."
Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom (Grand Rapids, 1980), pages 38-39.
Comments:
May 9, 2012 at 02:14 AM
He hit the nail on the head with humility here, as he was so capable of doing on so many subjects.
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