![]() This was reflected in the people I spoke to at the rally. Instead, postmodernists believe in many truths. Parody and caricature are products of postmodernism, she writes, which relishes mocking the sins of society while denying ultimate truth, that truth being God. It was her discussion on postmodernism that spoke to my conflicted feelings about the rally. "It does not fill the hunger in the human heart for connection with a personal God who knows and loves us." Rothko's negative mysticism "is not enough," Ms Pearcey concludes. As a result, his last works were panels in shades of black. He felt he knew what God is not, but he could not accept what his own religion said about Him. Rothko, who was Jewish, had explored Christian symbols-along with Greek and Egyptian mythological ones-she writes, but he found these concepts too limiting. Ms Pearcey's book explains his concept of "negative theology" that the ultimate truth of God can only be expressed by the negation of images. Rothko committed suicide before the chapel opened in 1971. Fast forward five centuries to Mark Rothko, one of America's most famous artists, whose depressing dark-panelled chapel near downtown Houston emits a message of the unbearable silence of God. ![]() His 15th-century paintings, such as the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, reflected the idea that man is on Earth for a reason that our lives have meaning and there is harmony, order and design in the created universe. Leonardo da Vinci's used his Christian worldview to reveal the spiritual realm within our ordinary lives, she writes. Her new book, " Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals and Meaning", presents a case for Christianity as the best counterweight to the secular, anti-God views of Western culture. ![]() In an effort to make intellectual sense of this, I turned to a new book by Nancy Pearcey, America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual. I had never been to a postmodern rally before. It was a sea of plucky disaffection: "This is a sign" "One sign to rule them all" "I want more tortillas when I order fajitas at a restaurant" "I have a PhD in horribleness" "I Like Turtles" "Eat Some Sushi" "My president is black and this sign is blue" and "I already regret carrying this sign around all day." What clever nonsense, I thought as I pushed my way through the crowds. ![]() But what impressed me were the signs I saw people carrying. The gathering was decidedly odd-two faux newscasters had organised a semi-faux rally. NOT long ago I was covering the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, a wildly popular event hosted by Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert that drew well over 200,000 people to the Washington Mall. ![]()
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