God's Telos: Our Hope
We live in a world of pessimism, negativity, and doom and gloom. This world preaches despair and hopelessness. The prevalent worldview is fatalism. The philosophy of the world is that this world, and life itself is awful. Are you familiar with the nove Don Quixote , or its musical version Man of La Mancha ? In the story Alonso Quijano loses his mind. He goes insane, and the lines between reality and fiction become blurred to the point that he believes that he is a knight. He changes his name to Don Quixote of La Mancha. The, he declares a neighboring farm girl, Aldonza Lorenzo, to be his lady love, and renames Dulcinea del Toboso. He does this without her knowing anything about it. He goes out on a knight's adventure, ends up at an inn he thinks is a castle. He gets into a fight because someone insulted his dear Dulcinea. The fights results in Don being severely beaten and left by the side of the road. Most famously, he gets into fights with windmills because he