A choice

Ellul on what he perceives to be our situation in the world as believers (and I tend to think he's right, which freaks me out):

At present we are confronted by a choice: either a mass civilization, technological, "conformist"--the "Brave New World" of Huxley, hell organized upon earth for the bodily comfort of everybody--or a different civilization, which we cannot yet describe because we do not know what it will be; it still has to be created consciously, by men...if we let ourselves drift along the stream of history, without knowing it, we shall have chosen the power of suicide, which is at the heart of the world.

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Now the situation of the Christian in the world is a revolutionary situation.  His or her share in the preservation of the world is to be an inexhaustible revolutionary force in the midst of the world.  Here we are concerned with the preservation of the world, for in our own day, as I have tried to show already, "conformity to history" leads to catastrophe: to the death of millions of people...to the technical establishment of suicide.  In order to preserve the world, it is actually necessary that a genuine revolution should take place. 

-Jaques Ellul, The Presence of the Kingdom, p. 31.