Monday, May 3, 2010


In his sermon this past Sunday, Pastor Allen quoted (as he has several times before) from Cornelius Plantinga's book The Way It's Supposed to Be. Plantinga is a theology professor at Calvin Seminary. Curious about the origin of the title of the book (which is about sin and it effects in modern day culture), I found this introductory paragraph of the book online:

"In the film Grand Canyon, an immigration attorney breaks out of a traffic jam and attempts to bypass it. His route takes him along streets that seem progressively darker and more deserted. Then, the predictable Bonfire of the Vanities nightmare: The man's fancy sports car stalls on one of those alarming streets whose teenaged guardians wear expensive guns and sneakers. He does manage to phone for a tow truck. But before it arrives, five young street toughs surround the attorney's disabled car and threaten him with considerable bodily harm. Just in time, the tow truck shows up and its driver - an earnest, genial man - begins to hook up to the sports car. The toughs protest: the driver is interrupting their meal. So the driver takes the group leader aside and attempts a five sentence introduction to metaphysics: "Man," he says, "the world ain't s'pposed to work like this. Maybe you don't know that, but this ain't the way it's s'pposed to be. I'm s'pposed to be able to do my job without askin' you if I can. And that dude is s'pposed to be able to wait with his car without you rippin' him off. Everything's s'pposed to be different than what it is here."

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