Don’t Let the Light of Technology Make You Miss the Stars in the Sky

Philip Yancey:

Soren Kierkegaard told a parable a rich man riding in a lighted carriage driven by a peasant man who sat behind the horse in the cold and dark outside. Precisely because he sat near the artificial light inside, the rich man missed the panorama of stars outside, a view gloriously manifest to the peasant. In modern times, it seems, as science casts more light on created world, its shadows further obscure the invisible world beyond. Rumors of Another World, page 18.