“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.” — Acts 17:28
The only way to overcome the absurd emptiness of this world is to become truly Christian, trusting in Christ as the one reality deeper than death. —D.
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The only cure for the absurd lies at its root: we must become Christians. Albert Camus, in his cold, clear honesty, saw the choice plain: “We must choose between miracles and the absurd.” He was right. There is no fence to sit on. Either the world is drenched in meaning, or it is stripped bare. Either it opens into the eternal, or it curls in on itself and rots. Christianity and absurdism both see through the lies of shallow reason and the false hope of human progress. But where absurdism ends in the pit, Christianity points to the heavens.
The modern mind wants to weigh and measure, to flatten mystery into numbers, to hush the soul with facts. But the world is not tame. At its heart, it is either wild with wonder or cold with nothingness. And so we must choose. Absurdism takes the fallen self as its final word. But Christianity begins with God, and ends with Him. It looks past the grave, while absurdism circles the same darkness forever.
To speak of fixing the world without Christ is itself absurd. We’ve tried it. We’ve built new systems, passed better laws, raised new banners, and we are more lost than ever. Dying of despair, killing for nothing, hearts starved of meaning. But with Christ, the world is set alight. With Him, the grave is not the end. Without Him, all our good efforts are a show played for no one. So the answer is plain: we must become Christians. Not by name alone, but with a soul steeped in faith, a will rooted in Christ’s presence. That is where the absurd is undone. That is where the meaning begins.