When Cultures Reject God

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality, and in the end they do indeed become weightless, insubstantial, light as air, ephemeral or, in the terms used by the prophets, “weighed in the balances, and found wanting” (Dan 5:27 KJV). They give birth “only to wind” (Is 26:18), and like tumbleweed before the hurricanes of history, they are eventually “gone with the wind” (Is 57:13).  The judgment over their end is the verdict “Ichabod”—the glory, the reality, the weightiness has gone (1 Sam 4:21).

Os Guinness, Impossible People, pg.126