The world is constantly bombarding us with suggestions that physical strength, wealth, material possessions, human brilliance, the "correct" friends or personal contact, and so on, are passports to power.
Was Christ Jesus making an impossible demand on the multitudes to whom he preached when he said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect"?
The concept of progress—the notion that somehow or other steady betterment is taking place for individuals and for society— is being increasingly questioned.
