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I “This is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life you would have been instructed as to what to do and where to go.” This piece of clever graffiti was discovered by a friend in a subway station underneath the Loop in Chicago. The words were depicted as coming out of a radio speaker. This underground art work is a cynical takeoff on those Civil Defense Public Service announcements that all of us are familiar with. At its philosophical heart the drawing implies that we human beings have been set loose in the world without chart or compass. We have been asked to solve a crossword puzzle without benefit of clues. Those of us who take the Bible seriously hold that God has spoken, that truth has been imparted, that our failures are better traced to human disobedience than to any absence of light. Our problem is not that we do not know: It is…
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