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The Coming Christian Renaissance
Crisis Magazine ^ | 5/17/2013 | David Byrne

Posted on 05/19/2013 10:45:20 AM PDT by DavidThomas

The linear conception of history is so seductive, even antagonistic groups like Enlightenment philosophers and Marxists adopt it. It pervades their attitude toward religion. Both believe society matures as it sheds its religious heritage. Infantile societies practice religion, but progressive societies are secular, they maintain.

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TOPICS: History; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics; Theology
KEYWORDS: awakening; christendom; revival

1 posted on 05/19/2013 10:45:20 AM PDT by DavidThomas
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To: DavidThomas

In 1776 Voltaire said, “100 years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.” 100 years later Voltaire’s home was being used as a distribution point for spreading Bibles throughout Europe* and within 26 years of his death the British & Foreign Bible Society had been founded, sparking an unprecedented era of Bible distribution**.

In 1778 Voltaire, boasting of himself said, “It took 12 men to start Christianity; one will destroy it.” That was the very year that he died*.

Robert Ingersoll said, “In 15 years I will have this book [the Bible] in the morgue.” Fifteen years later, Ingersoll himself was in the morgue and in his estate sale a preacher bought his desk and spent his life writing sermons on it*.


2 posted on 05/19/2013 11:09:40 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: DavidThomas
The Progressives want to take us back to the 1930s. Or maybe the 1890s. Or perhaps 1789 so that they can set up guillotines for the clergy and the rich again.

It's odd what they consider "progress".

3 posted on 05/19/2013 11:18:44 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: ClearCase_guy

progressives are a congress of regressives


4 posted on 05/19/2013 11:20:34 AM PDT by bigheadfred ( barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
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To: Linda Frances

Christ keeps on resurrecting, so to speak, and the reason is very near at hand: it truly is a divine affair. The opprobrium that Christianity garners would have squashed any movement that was purely of man long ago.


5 posted on 05/19/2013 11:47:22 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: DavidThomas

I checked, and this article was not written by a former member of the Talking Heads, but a different David Byrne.
(Hey, you never know!)


6 posted on 05/19/2013 11:49:03 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: DavidThomas

It’s funny that they honestly believe “mature” societies shed religion. There’s another common correlation. Countries that were once powerful and wealthy decline as they embrace secularism. Just look at the UK, and now the US. I also remember a study recently that revealed more people today are committing suicide than during the Great Depression. I wonder why.


7 posted on 05/19/2013 12:12:37 PM PDT by Viennacon (l)
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To: Linda Frances

Heaven and earth will pass away. GOD’S WORD will always stay.

JOHN 1:1-5
In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 He existed in the beginning with God.
3 God created everything through him,
and nothing was created except through him.
4 The Word gave life to everything that was created,
and his life brought light to everyone.
5 The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness can never extinguish it.


8 posted on 05/19/2013 12:23:19 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ((Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!))
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To: DavidThomas

Today being Pentecost the Christian faith always, always has a way to make a comeback.

Come, Holy Spirit. Amen.


9 posted on 05/19/2013 1:09:39 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: DavidThomas

So, history runs in cycles - fine. I kinda thought the author might present some current evidence for his headline, but he’s just talking about the concept of a Christian resurgence in the abstract. Oh, well...


10 posted on 05/19/2013 1:28:47 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Disambiguator
I checked, and this article was not written by a former member of the Talking Heads, but a different David Byrne.

That's OK, in any case, the basic thesis of the article is "same as it ever was." Or to misquote Mr. Corleone, the snake keeps trying to writhe its way in, and Christ keeps grabbing and pulling it out.

11 posted on 05/19/2013 1:45:45 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Biggirl

Amen


12 posted on 05/19/2013 1:49:24 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: DavidThomas

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
- C.S. Lewis


13 posted on 05/19/2013 1:57:37 PM PDT by HoneysuckleRose
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To: HoneysuckleRose

Good quote.


14 posted on 05/19/2013 5:03:07 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: DavidThomas
The book of Ecclesiastes clearly teaches that natural and human history runs in circles. Only Gods redemptive plan runs linearly with a preconcieved objective and plan but that plan cannot be discerned merely by observation of natural and human events. Observing these will only take you in circles.

Whatever will be
Has already been done
And there is nothing new
Under the sun.

15 posted on 05/20/2013 7:33:56 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: DavidThomas
The linear conception of history is so seductive, even antagonistic groups like Enlightenment philosophers and Marxists adopt it. It pervades their attitude toward religion. Both believe society matures as it sheds its religious heritage. Infantile societies practice religion, but progressive societies are secular, they maintain.

Yet nowadays the Left champions the "indigenous pipples" and their pre-enlightenment superstitions.

16 posted on 05/20/2013 8:08:54 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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