But this is the real Quote of the Day, Friday, June 27, 2003 "The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place. So we must know what is the actual form of the world's will to suicide in order that we oppose it, in order that we may know how, and in what direction, we ought to direct our efforts. The world is neither capable of preserving itself, nor is it capable of finding remedies for its spiritual situation (which controls the rest). It carries the weight of sin, it is the realm of satan which leads it toward separation from God and consequently toward death. That is all that it is able to do. Thus it is not for us to construct the City of God, to build up an "Order of God" within this world, without taking note of its suicidal tendencies. Our concern should be to place ourselves at the very point where this suicidal desire is most active, in the actual form it adopts and to see how God's will of preservation can act in this given situation. ...we are then obliged to understand the depth and the spiritual reality of the mortal tendency of this world; it is to this that we ought to direct all our efforts...." --Jacques Ellul, _The Presence of the Kingdom, 2nd ed. (1989). pp. 19.