Wells on America's modern Splendor...

From Above All Earthly Pow'rs by David F. Wells:

"At America's genesis, we set out to make happiness the end of life and enshrined its pursuit as an inviolable right in our constitution. Along the way, however, we have come to think that happiness is unattainable and unimaginable in the absence of comfort and affluence. The means to reach this end - capitalism and technology - have, in the absence of serious engagement with the truth of God and the God of that truth, become themselves the final ends of life. The means become the end as the affluent live only for their own affluence."