Are We Fantasy or Non-Fiction?
The breaking news of John Allen Chau and his fatal mission to the North Sentinel Island spread shockwaves across the globe. The story was a tragic one. Whatever one might think about his religion or methods, he was a man who felt so passionately about something that he was willing to lay his life down for it. A whole new story unfolded afterwards however, in the reaction of the world to his death. There has been a slow rot in the church of the western world for many decades. Like weeds growing up over a barely used house, the feeling slowly grew amongst western Christianity that the world was becoming less of a place we had influence over or were even welcome. The common response a post-modern world has to faith of any kind is, "that's great for you personally but just be sure to keep it to yourself." Over a generation that response has become perhaps the only Golden Rule of a secularized society. John Allen Chau scandalously violated that Go...