Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why God Isn’t Doing Well. Our Creator isn’t very popular in our secularist, left-wing culture.
National Review ^ | 04/05/2011 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 04/06/2011 6:46:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-48 last
To: SeekAndFind

God’s doing just fine.

It’s our secular, left-wing culture that isn’t faring so well.


41 posted on 04/07/2011 6:15:42 AM PDT by Nickname
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
".. increasingly large numbers of men and women attend university, and Western universities have become essentially secular (and leftist) seminaries. Just as the agenda of traditional Christian and Jewish seminaries is to produce religious Christians and religious Jews, the agenda of Western universities is to produce (left-wing) secularists. The difference is that Christian and Jewish seminaries are honest about their agenda, while the universities still claim they have neither a secularist nor a political agenda. ...."

Nihilists/existentialists/materialists/and Shameless Democrats have no other option than to __lie to themselves__:

The Ten Commandments of Nihilism: Left, Bereft, and F'ed

The Graven and Craven Images of the Nihilist (2nd commandment))

The Third Commandment of Nihilism: You Shall Have a Vanity Plate in Your Head

Evolution vs. Revolution: On Spending Timelessness With Yoursoph (4th commandment)

42 posted on 04/07/2011 9:58:57 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ("Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Tax " ~ Gagdad Bob)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wintertime

ever notice that the various cults of the 1970s recruited
from the kids of the years just after prayer was forbidden?


43 posted on 04/07/2011 12:19:55 PM PDT by cycjec
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Soothesayer

the immune system analogy is interesting. I’m trying to
recall an Irving Babbit passage about how a leftist (that
wasn’t his term) arrives at an *inverted* scale of values,
not simply a defective one. but I’m just no up too finding
the book and looking at this time.


44 posted on 04/07/2011 12:24:23 PM PDT by cycjec
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I don’t think God loses any sleep regarding popularity contests.


45 posted on 04/07/2011 12:58:55 PM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Godzilla

RE: I don’t think God loses any sleep


“He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” ( Psalms 121:3,4)


46 posted on 04/07/2011 1:12:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: cycjec
ever notice that the various cults of the 1970s recruited
from the kids of the years just after prayer was forbidden?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I hope you are not suggesting that a sprinkle of prayer and scripture in the morning would fix socialist, collectivist, and voter mob run schools? We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!

The 1970s was merely a result of at least 3 generations of secular humanist curriculum. My grandmother who was born in 1894, attended government schools that taught from a strictly secularist worldview. Her education was remarkably different in nearly every way from that of my mother and me. Yes, my grandmother had a sprinkle of prayer in the morning. Yes, her teachers were Christian and brought their influence into the class room, but the worldview of the curriculum was officially godless.

I attended government school from 1962 to 1964. Even by then, my high school my government teachers were already pushing the boundaries of edgy. And...We still have a dab of prayer and scripture in the morning with an occasional carol or hymn sung by the school chorus.

We can not send generations of children into godless government schools and expect our nation to thrive. Eventually, the culture will unravel. In the 1970s the culture finally began tearing at the seams.

47 posted on 04/07/2011 1:17:06 PM PDT by wintertime
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: cycjec
ever notice that the various cults of the 1970s recruited
from the kids of the years just after prayer was forbidden?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I hope you are not suggesting that a sprinkle of prayer and scripture in the morning would fix socialist, collectivist, and voter mob run schools? We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!

The 1970s was merely a result of at least 3 generations of secular humanist curriculum. My grandmother who was born in 1894, attended government schools that taught from a strictly secularist worldview. Her education was remarkably different in nearly every way from that of my mother and me. Yes, my grandmother had a sprinkle of prayer in the morning. Yes, her teachers were Christian and brought their influence into the class room, but the worldview of the curriculum was officially godless.

I attended government school from 1962 to 1964. Even by then, my high school my government teachers were already pushing the boundaries of edgy. And...We still have a dab of prayer and scripture in the morning with an occasional carol or hymn sung by the school chorus.

We can not send generations of children into godless government schools and expect our nation to thrive. Eventually, the culture will unravel. In the 1970s the culture finally began tearing at the seams.

48 posted on 04/07/2011 1:17:33 PM PDT by wintertime
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-48 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson