“Without Christ, just reading the stories shared on social media would make me commit suicide,” shared a friend.
Just reading the stories shared on social media, just hearing of young people die of careless accidents and children die of cancer, just seeing the pain that our loved ones experience, just facing our own struggles and insecurities… if left to our own faculties, we have every right to ask if this life is worth living.
What if we lived in utopia? Where there was no pain, no injustice, no struggle, and ultimately no death. Over history, man has tried to create utopian societies. One such society removed the restrictions of a monogamous marriage and child-rearing to a particular couple, creating a community where there were no clear couples and where all children born were brought up by the community, without a set couple of parents. As you would expect, things didn’t go very well, and this utopian experiment failed, along with many others which preceded and followed.