Rejection

There are different ways of rejecting people. You might meet me walking down the street one morning and say, “Shalom, Brother Prince.” And I might push you away and say, “I don’t want to talk to you.” That would be rejecting you. But I think a more cutting rejection would be if I didn’t pay any attention to you. If I just walked past you as if you weren’t there. Now atheism pushes God away and says, “We don’t want you.” Humanism just walks past as if God wasn’t there. And really that’s a very conspicuous feature of our contemporary culture, especially, I think, in Israel. The majority of Israel lives as if there was no God.