This period, this present moment, is the stage where the living act out their responsibility. They cannot avoid it and cannot avert their gaze from what manifests itself as the presence of evil, whether by seeking refuge in the past as dead passivity or by concocting images of a desirable future. One may escape reality in either of these ways, but both, as is now more evident than ever before, fail to resolve the issue of the responsibility of the living. This present moment is the only certainty, the only thing about which there can be no doubts. There is only one other moment that resembles it, and that is death. The present moment and death are the only absolute certainties of human existence, and yet both seem now to be more remote than ever. And neither the present moment nor death can be comprehended without two further certainties – Eternity, and God. These too are remote from modern individuals, who have distanced themselves from these certainties to such an extent that almost their entire existence is imbued with the very reverse of certainty.
Individuals living in these times are actually in greater uncertainty than at any other time...the full essay by Rusmir Mahmutcehajic @ www.vanleer.org.il/Data/UploadedFiles/Files/religious.doc
