America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

John Piper
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  2. ... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective...

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