PoliticalChic
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1.There is the cautionary tale about hardworking parents who provide too much for their children, and those children raise spoiled kids who lose it all: “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.”
Work hard with the correct principles, become successful.....but then the good life makes the next generation lazy, they no longer behave as earlier ones, and lose it all.
It is possible that our civilization has been too successful, provided too much of the good life, and has resulted in generations who have forgotten how we got to this point….
…and are in danger of throwing it all away?
It seems that same pattern applies to human history. Once, humanity was guided by ancient Mesopotamian and Near-Eastern cultures and religions. Then, the sea-change, the Judeo-Christian faith which gave us Western Civilization….Seems like three millennia is pretty long for that ‘second generation’ of building Western Civilization. What comes next? Get ready for that third ‘generation’ and a return to a world that honors neither God, nor the human life he created.
A civilization that feels that it is God.
2. In the Old Testament chapter following the Noah and the flood story, 8.1 …and God caused a wind to blow across the earth and the waters sub- sided.
“God, the Creator of nature, is fully in command of the forces He created. Unlike the gods in other ancient flood narratives, He is able to stop the flood as soon as He wishes. By contrast, the gods of the Mesopotamian flood story could not stop the waters they had unleashed, and they themselves became scared of what they had unleashed….[The Bible makes clear] that Nature, whose manifestations (the sun, the moon, rivers, springs, and so on) pagans worshipped as gods, was created by, and subservient to, God. Because the whole [pagan] world worshipped nature, …
The people we call pagans were not stupid. They were simply untouched by biblical ideas. In the West, we are now living in a largely post-biblical world, which means much of mankind might well revert to many pre-biblical pagan values and beliefs. One such example is the elevation of nature to a god-like status…. [with the result that] human beings cease to have the special value posited by the Bible. The Bible has a theocentric (God-centered) and anthropocentric (man-centered) view of the world. As the theocentric view collapses, so does the anthropocentric.
… human worth is dependent on there being a God …”
Prager, “The Rational Bible”
3. Leftism is the religion of the secular world, and part of its required belief is that human life has no value. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
Communism, socialism, Progressivism, whatever it is called...
As true to their word, the secularists killed well over 100 million men, women and children during their ascendancy, and over 60 million unborn to date.
4. Environmentalism is a combination of communism and nature-worship.
Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.””
Michael Crichton
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three ‘generations.’
Work hard with the correct principles, become successful.....but then the good life makes the next generation lazy, they no longer behave as earlier ones, and lose it all.
It is possible that our civilization has been too successful, provided too much of the good life, and has resulted in generations who have forgotten how we got to this point….
…and are in danger of throwing it all away?
It seems that same pattern applies to human history. Once, humanity was guided by ancient Mesopotamian and Near-Eastern cultures and religions. Then, the sea-change, the Judeo-Christian faith which gave us Western Civilization….Seems like three millennia is pretty long for that ‘second generation’ of building Western Civilization. What comes next? Get ready for that third ‘generation’ and a return to a world that honors neither God, nor the human life he created.
A civilization that feels that it is God.
2. In the Old Testament chapter following the Noah and the flood story, 8.1 …and God caused a wind to blow across the earth and the waters sub- sided.
“God, the Creator of nature, is fully in command of the forces He created. Unlike the gods in other ancient flood narratives, He is able to stop the flood as soon as He wishes. By contrast, the gods of the Mesopotamian flood story could not stop the waters they had unleashed, and they themselves became scared of what they had unleashed….[The Bible makes clear] that Nature, whose manifestations (the sun, the moon, rivers, springs, and so on) pagans worshipped as gods, was created by, and subservient to, God. Because the whole [pagan] world worshipped nature, …
The people we call pagans were not stupid. They were simply untouched by biblical ideas. In the West, we are now living in a largely post-biblical world, which means much of mankind might well revert to many pre-biblical pagan values and beliefs. One such example is the elevation of nature to a god-like status…. [with the result that] human beings cease to have the special value posited by the Bible. The Bible has a theocentric (God-centered) and anthropocentric (man-centered) view of the world. As the theocentric view collapses, so does the anthropocentric.
… human worth is dependent on there being a God …”
Prager, “The Rational Bible”
3. Leftism is the religion of the secular world, and part of its required belief is that human life has no value. "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky
Communism, socialism, Progressivism, whatever it is called...
As true to their word, the secularists killed well over 100 million men, women and children during their ascendancy, and over 60 million unborn to date.
4. Environmentalism is a combination of communism and nature-worship.
Michael Crichton, in his “Environmentalism as Religion” remarks, made before the Commonwealth Club, in San Francisco in 2003, summed it all up.
“The believers in environmentalism believe and preach that we should live in unity with nature, or the environment. They believe that in the beginning we did. They believe that we are now living in sin because we have polluted the earth. We will be visited with a judgment day and the judgment will be death, for the whole planet, unless we repent, (which means to turn around and go the other way) and make our way back to sustainability. You see, in the environmentalism religion, sustainability IS salvation.””
Michael Crichton
Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three ‘generations.’