Liberal Christianity is the Suicide of the Mind
by John Zmirak, The Stream:
Wonder why the world appears to be going bonkers?
An old pagan expression goes, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Since there’s just the one God, and He doesn’t hold petty grudges like Zeus or Odin, this needs a little revision. But then it will explain with scientific precision the rejection of reason we’re seeing unfold today.
How’s this? (Less poetic, but truer):
Whoever peevishly flouts God’s grace and stubbornly refuses divine help will notice certain consequences. Not because God is vengeful, but because the world has an orderly structure. And self-destructive behavior, kept up long enough, destroys the self.
Keep hitting yourself in the temple with that ball-peen hammer, and pretty soon it will cave in. That won’t be God’s “revenge” or even His punishment. It’s just what happens. If it didn’t, then we wouldn’t live in a lawful universe.
Then SCIENCE wouldn’t work and as Bill Nye helpfully warns us, that would be very, very bad. Since he doesn’t actually believe in an orderly universe, or a free mind with free will, Nye doesn’t even know why science does work. He looks at its technical benefits with the same clueless wonder as natives who belong to a cargo cult. But he has no idea why the plane lands, or where the cargo really comes from. He just builds little pious shrines to it.
Unsaved, We can be a Cancer on the Planet
Without God’s constant grace, and our willingness to work with it, we revert to our earlier state. Which is fallen, but fiendishly smart. That’s a hellish combination.
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