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But let me try an example: the answer given by Sir Edmund Hillary to the question: Why climb the mountain? “Because it's there,” he said.
To the rural African mind, this is an explanation of why one would not climb the mountain. It's... well, there. Just there. Why interfere? Nothing to be done about it, or with it. Hillary's further explanation - that nobody else had climbed it - would stand as a second reason for passivity.
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After living in Africa, I would say that this is the best explanation of the mindset of those people with out Christ.
But let me also tell you that with Christ, things change. And the author is, as they say in the former British territories, "spot on".