Title : Thrusting for faith.
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Thrusting for faith.
I'm reading a very worthwhile essay in Commentary by Bari Weiss "We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out With Courage/Say no to the Woke Revolution." (Google some of the text if the link doesn't work.)Why are so many, especially so many young people, drawn to this ideology? It’s not because they are dumb. Or because they are snowflakes....All of this has taken place against the backdrop of major changes in American life—the tearing apart of our social fabric; the loss of religion and the decline of civic organizations; the opioid crisis; the collapse of American industries; the rise of big tech; successive financial crises; a toxic public discourse; crushing student debt. An epidemic of loneliness. A crisis of meaning....
“I became converted because I was ripe for it and lived in a disintegrating society thrusting for faith.” That was Arthur Koestler writing in 1949 about his love affair with Communism. The same might be said of this new revolutionary faith. And like other religions at their inception, this one has lit on fire the souls of true believers, eager to burn down anything or anyone that stands in its way....
As my tag "religion substitutes" proves, I have a longstanding interest in religion substitutes, and I agree that a lot of current politics — especially "woke" politics — fits the needs traditionally served by religion and is practiced like religion... religion at its worst.
But was Arthur Koestler thrusting for faith?! His essay appeared in the collection "The God That Failed," and the relevant passage looks like this:
Koestler wasn't "thrusting for faith." He was "thirsting for faith."
Editors — and writers rereading their work — should check all quotes. It's so easy to make transcription typos. But some things ought to jump out as wrong.
When I read "thrusting for faith," it jumped out at me. That's got to be wrong. It's way too sexual — "thrusting." It's vivid, but ludicrous. I picture a man... thrusting... for faith!
After 2 seconds of puzzling, I guessed the original text had "thirsting," and that turned out to be right.
And yet, why is "thirst" the conventional metaphor?
Jesus — speaking about a well — said:
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”He also said, "whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."
And: “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
Come, all you who are thirsty,As for "thrusting," there is thrusting in the Bible. It's not sexual thrusting. It's pushing people away — "thrust into utter darkness," "thrust them from his presence" — or running them through with a blade — "Abner thrust the butt of his spear into Asahel’s stomach, and the spear came out through his back."
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a ruler and commander of the peoples.
Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations you do not know will come running to you,
because of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor.
Thus articles Thrusting for faith.
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