Europe: The Search for Meaning in the Occult
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry entitled Denmark: The Search for Meaning in Astrology , where I pointed out that there appeared to be a surge in interest in astrology in that nation. Given that Denmark is a very atheistic country, I speculated that the reason for the increased interest is man's need for meaning. Using Francis Schaeffer's writings as a source, I noted that people have an intuitive belief that the universe is not meaningless. Atheism, however, leads to the conclusion that the only possible meaning in the universe has to be transitive and not absolute or eternal. Since people instinctively recognize that such transitive meaning is illusory, they seek meaning elsewhere. Since they have ruled out the God of the Bible as the source of meaning, they will turn to anything -- even astrology -- regardless of how irrational because it, at least, fills that need for meaning. Now, another article has been released by the International Herald Tribune entitled Mea...