When I first read this book, I found it to be a spy thriller.
The second time I read it, I thought it was a political book.
The third time I read it, I realized it was a man's search for God.
And that was when the book really hit me. This passage from Witness explains it, and encompasses the conversation we are having on Free Republic today, as both of you readily see:
“...It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: "Ye shall be as gods." It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faiths, its force derives from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and man's relationship to God. The Communist vision is the vision of Man without God.
It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in his image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals. Copernicus and his successors displaced man as the central fact of the universe by proving that the earth was not the central star of the universe. Communism restores man to his sovereignty by the simple method of denying God...”
The left seeks to, and has largely succeeded in replacing God with Man on this earth. Some of us won't go down that road, and that makes us alien and outcast to them. I can't think of any badges, honors, or medals I would rather wear than that.
BULLS-EYE!!!!! THE REAL HEART OF THE MATTER!
Thank you......
Why everything else is dealing with symptoms - and only addressing the root cause will work.......
Truth is that which is true (ie. an accurate view of reality). If the Bible is true, then the Biblical worldview is an accurate description of reality, and any contrary view is an inaccurate view of reality. Leftists, who usually hate Christianity and the Bible, truly have a different, and inaccurate, view of reality. They are living in a different world (of thought and perception), as evidenced by the MSM and college campuses.