(By Jay Younts) As the reality of God has dimmed in the life-flow of modern culture, an exchange of truth for an illusion has occurred. The illusion is that humans have a right to self-pleasure, and especially sex. After all, we are entitled to the pursuit of happiness. In this exchange, God and the Bible are portrayed as opponents to the quest for pleasure. We have been told that the pursuit of pleasure with our bodies is the route to happiness. In his book, “The Hacking of the American Mind,” Professor Robert Lustig, disagrees:
Thus, the more pleasure you seek, the more unhappy you get and the more likelihood you will slide into addiction or depression. Our ability to perceive happiness has been sabotaged by our modern incessant quest for pleasure, which our consumer culture has made all too easy to satisfy. Those who abdicate happiness for pleasure will end up with neither. CONTINUE
