In the days of self-realization, the psychology boom, the days of finding one’s self, I’m OK, You’re OK, JFK’s ‘ask what you can do’ and the last American Jesus revival (that’s happening now across the globe) the existential question was: 

Is the glass half empty or half full?

       Do you look at things in a positive light or negative? Do you see a future or are you resigned to an end? It’s the question of the ages, that timeless, elusive province G. Campbell Morgan refers to as a harbor where we seek to lay our anchor. Plainly, is there hope?

       Humanists point to man’s intellectual progress, his prowess in reaching space, assigning the stars, and at the same time discovering environmentally safe fuels for our engines that go nowhere; to his creating leisure so we can enjoy life, to more feeding our bodies instead of our minds, to genetically altering plants to produce more and more food in an attempt to solve the world hunger problem – yet man continues to starve and die. With our incomplete answers we race to the next solution used only if man’s heart deems it worthy. After all – how does it affect the bottom line, the status quo; right?

Is the glass half empty or half full?

       Religionists point to a coming together, an ecumenical organization (read fantasy) joining faiths that are diametrically opposed in a manmade religious orgy that will somehow do that which is right. As if that will rid the world of fossil fuel propulsion and political compulsion that displaces the classes, hoping the lions lay down with lambs.