Humanistic freedom is bondage by another name

Atheist Jeremy Paxman, writing in the Daily Mail, has the honesty to confess that selfishness has been the basic policy of his generation.

He doesn't admit the next bit quite so clearly, but it still comes across: his generation fought for so-called "freedom" in the moral revolution of the 1960s... and it turns out that the results of "freedom" for the following generations will be increasing bondage.

Since Paxman hasn't apparently abandoned any of his humanistic assumptions, it is appropriate that the article only describes the way down, with no suggestions of what a way back up would look like. Being an atheist, Paxman isn't yet ready to concede that the real problem is in the human heart, and that true freedom consists in what he today would still consider bondage: submitting to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Man's "freedom" brings bondage; God's "bondage" brings true freedom. That freedom is much deeper and solves more problems than simply the economic and social ones which Paxman discusses.