Social Anasthesia

'There are today, few of the convulsions that happened in the depth of the human spirit.' David Wells

In reading this statement I have come to realise that my soul has really become accustomed and almost blind to the depth of sin and injustice, which pervades our world and culture. Christians no longer allow sin and social absurdity to affect the depth of out souls, but instead treat many things as merely surface value issues. Put simply, Christians just feel enough anymore...they don't get angry anymore.

Here are some of the things which make me angry: cohabitation instead of marriage, sexually pervasive advertising, corporate greed and disproportionate wealth distribution, prosperity teaching, contraceptives being freely distributed in schools, abortion, waste and environmental destruction, cosmetic surgery, the tobacco industry, self improvement books, motivational speakers.

When will we as Christians and as a culture learn to shake of this sense of 'social anasthesia'? Chris Jordan, a secular social observer and artist, spoke on this issue at the TED conference held in 2008...if a non Christian feels these issues, how much more should we as Christians feel and respond to them also?