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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hi, my name's Andrew Latimer. I'm a Church of England minister at Grace Church in Greenwich
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Lots of people have observed that, spiritually speaking, there's no such thing as opting out
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We can't be neutral like a spiritual Switzerland. Bob Dylan famously sang, you've got to serve somebody
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the atheist writer David Foster Wallace he gave a commencement address back in 2005
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it later got published as a book and in the speech he made a similar point he said this
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in the day-to-day trenches of adult life there's actually no such thing as atheism
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there's no such thing as not worshipping everybody worships the only choice we get is what to worship
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And then he carried on and he made this observation. He said
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So if you worship money and things
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if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you'll never have enough
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Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure. You'll always feel ugly
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Worship power. You'll end up feeling weak and afraid. And you'll need more and more power over others
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to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart
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and you'll end up feeling stupid. a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And the Bible describes the same thing
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We are made to worship. We can't avoid it. And if we worship in anything other than the creator
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it really doesn't quench our thirst. As Jesus put it, everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty
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again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst
