# “God is now weightless” by David F. Wells

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- Published: 2008-04-21T22:06:30-05:00
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“It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not
mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests
upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency
for human life.

Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God’s existence may nonetheless
consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than
their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring 
than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers’ sweet
fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness.”

–David F. Wells, [_God in the Wasteland _](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802841791?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), 88.

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