This is making the rounds. I admit it's pretty awesome (according to the cameraman, the squirrel survived):
That's one brave squirrel. A bravery it would be nice to see among the world of Christianity.
I've said post-Christian era secularism has had its winning streak of sowing seeds of doubt and largely running roughshod over the Christian Faith for generations, if not centuries. Partly because it forever seized on the idea that there are problems in the world needing fixed, which is true. But then it always made sure those problems were hung around the neck of the Christian Faith, religion, and eventually all of Western culture.
Likewise, the solutions were almost always wrapped up in the need to admit how wrong the Faith, the Bible, religion in general, the miraculous, and values and heritage of the West always were. And nothing takes the fight out of the fighter more than doubting the legitimacy, much less the reality, of the cause at hand.
Which is likely why it worked so well. Just think how much godlessness, debauchery, decadence, blaspheme and assault on almost every cherished virtue or moral standards were able to be hoisted up and imposed our our society, our children, our Faith, one decade after another. Sometimes it boggles the mind.
Only now, you are beginning to see some pushback. Perhaps too late for the matters of this age. But at least where the spiritual side of the tracks is concerned, there is never too late as long as we have breath to take.
(Tom New Poster)
ReplyDeleteAh, Dave-O, nowadays the squirrel and snake would be called to accompany one another, in dialogue and social justice projects, and sit down at a synod (with at least one frog and bird, for we can't be speciest here, and a snail and worm (nonbinaries)), where there'd be more dialogue, with warnings against anti-serpentism and gray-squirrel-supremacy. And we can't judge all snakes merely because some eat other animals. :)
Sadly you're right in that. Somewhere the Church accepted the Left's premise that we have met the enemy and it is always us. So therefore just smack ourselves around and get down to our lowest level and everyone else will graciously reach out a hand of fellowship. And when it doesn't work that way, ignore that fact and move on.
DeletePhil Lawler has made a very astute observation/proposal for how the Church hierarchy could free itself from its own crippling diplomacy.
Deletehttps://substack.com/home/post/p-201762831
Interesting Lawler piece. My only thing is that he seems to suggest what we see is the result of a misuse of the real need to focus on material things on the part of those in charge. That the disparity between how the Church blasts the West or the US versus how it panders to non-Western forces is the result of this. But it could be that the Church, like the Left in general, purposely does this to advance its own post-Western ideals. That by suggesting the West alone is ever the villain, it has to downplay, if not ignore, the sins of the world that can't be hung around the West's neck. And perhaps the Church leadership accepts this new world order, and so follows in lockstep with that approach - focus on sins only when the West can be blamed. Otherwise? Eh.
Delete