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1 | The culture war | Luke 17:3 | Emmaus | 120863 | ||
Pete2, Our American culture is already throughly secular and has been for decades, despite some vestigal trappings of our its Protestant roots. Strangely enough, Christianity is thriving where it is an "outside" influence and under persecution, such as in China and on the bloody borders of Islam in sub Shaharan Africa and the Mollucas of Indonesia. It may yet revive in Europe and American, once the wheat has been separated from the chaff and a new spirit of re-evangelization takes root and as our society moves from marginalization to open persecution of committed Christians. This is already beginning. "...Since the life of the spirit is the very source of order in man and society, the very success of a Gnostic civilization is the cause of its decline."1 Humanistic atheism in the modern form of the idolatrous adoration of the new Gnostic gods is destroying the society of man.”2 “An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age, but cannot be held in another. Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesday. You might as well say of a view of the cosmos that it was suitable to half-past four. What a man can believe depends on his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century. If a man believes in an unalterable natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age.”3 “After starting out from unlimited freedom, I arrive at unlimited despotism.”4 When man becomes God, history testifies that then millions of men become imprisoned slaves, terrified automatons and murdered corpses. Society in the words of Gabriel Marcel, becomes “a termite colony.”5 1 Eric Vogelin, The new Science of Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952) p.131 2 Vincent Miceli, The Gods of Atheism, (New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House, 1971) p.xvi 3 G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, cited in The Gods of Atheism p. 439 4 Goerge Siegmund, God on Trial, quoting the Dostoevsky character Schigalev, cited in 5 The Gods of Atheism, p.463 May I strongly recommend two books by Vincent Miceli: "The Gods of Athesism" and "The Roots of Violence". More from The Gods of Atheism in my next post. |
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2 | Apathy | Luke 17:3 | Pete2 | 120897 | ||
Yes it is true that adversity seems to make people of faith stronger. That perhaps esplains the apathy the Christians feel in this country. It is my opinion that the backbone of this country is crumbling beyond repair. | ||||||
3 | Apathy | Luke 17:3 | EdB | 120905 | ||
Pete2 You made this a question but it is more a statement or response to Emmaus Removing from question queue EdB |
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