Posted on 10/29/2020 3:02:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
What are we to expect from a religion based on nothing better than the ambitions and the desires of self-indulgent human beings? If there is no greater behavioral standard than our own raw wants, what can we expect as a result? Sooner or later, that attractive veneer of secular idealism gets rubbed off by the inescapably brutal logic of the underlying creed: "Why does any life matter — especially when that life is in my way? Why should I love my neighbor as myself? Who is there that I cannot replace?" The answers to these questions can't be found inside ourselves. You will not get them from a clean Darwinian calculus. If we are nothing more than a collection of desires, then all of life is war. All is a quest for power. That is the endgame of a strict materialism.
Not all secularists are evil. Most are at least partially restrained by a vestigial thread of decency they cannot, themselves, really account for. Something they don't believe in still remains to bind them to their God-given moral core — but the voices of the culture shout against it. "Morality," the voices will tell them, "is just the ghost of an ignorant and superstitious past. God is nothing but an unenlightened social construct. Society" (that parody of humanity that is merely the bloated proxy for an aristocratic political class) "is more important than any number of ordinary people's lives." The individual, for the leftist, is an empty shell — a blank slate to be written on. A manufactured representative of the group. The truth is what human authority says it is.
Man can reject God, but he cannot reject his need for Him. In his resulting loneliness, man sets up a false god in His place.
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Good post!
Romans 1
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.
I would suggest this is no coinkidink.
22 But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Every adult on earth that does not believe in Jesus is already dead.
Christianity is the root of Western Civilization. Western ideals of democracy, individual rights, liberty, opportunity and equality are founded in Christian thought. So of course you’re right. The Marxist left must kill the Christian faith or at least radically change it into something it’s not in order to rule society.
Non believers are riding on the vestiges of Christianity. Once the left has abolished the faith (as is prophecied), then we will truly enter the worst times in the history of man. Think of the worst tyrannies in human history armed with high tech. Ghastly! Only the return of Christ will save us then.
Pretty much the entire libertarian platform, isn't it?
Pride, ego, arrogance. Whatever we wish to call it, all of them place self above God. They worship themselves. That is their religion. They think that they are smarter than the Christian God.
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