The Blank Page

I sit in any room full with kids from the age of 14 to the age of 24. The auditorium is nearly silent except for the one person standing up at the front. Everyone's eyes are on that one person. All ears are listening (except a select few who got too little sleep the night before). The room is hushed. Then the speaker begins to talk. The blank page resting on three metal rings begins to be scribbled on furiously as the speaker gives the most important of information.
Suddenly all the kids are hearing information on ethics, worldview, ideas. Cosmic humanism, secular humanism, postmodernism, and many other worldviews are thrown at us. We wrestle with the idea of atheism, of abortion, and many other topics. The blank pages in the notebook are suddenly filled with ideas that had occurred to nearly no one in the room. Suddenly, all seems instantly clear.
Those blank pages become filled with why we believe what we believe.
Because ideas have consequences.
And if ideas have consequences, we better be well sure we know why we believe what we believe.
And as the hundreds of students sit in the large auditorium, we begin to hear these ideas explained.
This, my friends, is called The Summit.