What I struggle with
by clay on December 27, 2006
I just finished a wonderful book, Letters to a Young Conservative
by Dinesh D'Souza. It's basically a collection of conservative bullet points, but written in such a way that it's exceptionally easy to follow. Mr. D'Souza hits on affirmative action, immigration, economics, everything. It's a treasure trove of information. At the end of the book, he includes a reading list of various books he found helpful. After finishing the book, I immediately went to Amazon and created a wish list of those books. Then it hit me.
Why can I so easily pickup any of those books and read them straight through, but yet if I pick up a book on theology or Christian living, it often bores me to death? Is that simply the way I am wired or is there something else at work here? Here's a short list of the books I've read in the past year.
- All the Harry Potter series, maybe a couple of the books twice
- The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker
- Blink
by Ted Dekker
- State of Fear
by Michael Crichton
- parts of the Koran (Qu'ran, however you spell it in English)
- parts of numerous technology books
What bothers me about this list is that I can read fiction all day long. Well, some fiction. I did read part of The Teeth Of The Tiger (Jack Ryan Novels)
but it was crap. Tom Clancy really doesn't do anything for me. The point is that why can I read some mindless, banal trash, but can't get into reading about God? Isn't God supposed to be the focus of our lives? Am I missing something? In learning about technology and politics, am I wasting time and brain capacity that could be used by spiritual things?
Does anyone have an answer for me?
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