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This 5 page paper critiques the book “God in the Wasteland” by David Wells. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Wells opens his book with a story that illustrates his thinking, and the point he wants to make in the book. He says that he was driving in the country
when he was cut off by a pickup truck; what intrigued him was the fact that the truck had two bumper stickers, one for a local politician, the other apparently
supporting Jesus (Wells, 1994). There were additional letters above the stickers and although Wells tried to catch up to the truck to read them, he couldnt manage it, and was
left wondering what the driver had added to the original message (Wells, 1994). And that brought something home to Wells with surprising force: the fact that we live in a
society which tries to communicate even great and complex ideas in a type of shorthand: "It is an age in which we pass the mysteries of life from one to
another in short, pithy slogans" (Wells, 1994, p. 4). Wells argues that while a word or two might be enough to resonate with some people, what is actually happening is
that we are turning everything in a commodity, and that includes God (Wells, 1994). He suggests that God is too awe-inspiring, too vast, and too mysterious to be reduced to
a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason for the commodification of our spirituality is a revolution that has occurred
almost without our realizing it, and this is another of Wells main points. This revolution, driven by technology, telecommunications, urbanization and capitalism, has been spiritual (Well, 1994). The world has
changed, and "so have we" (Wells, 1994, p. 6). Wells continues, "Old beliefs and conventions have ended up on many modern trash heaps, but we are neither perturbed nor vengeful.
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