Posted on 03/14/2024 1:02:41 PM PDT by Heartlander
Either he's an idiot (which I suspect) or...well, I can't think of an "or."
A former pastor of ours wrote a book called something like “The Facebook Generation” (10 years old now probably). He talked about how today's kids get SO MANY different world views that their maturity has been delayed.
Back in Jesus’ day, Mother Mary had grown up with ONE world view, and KNEW who she was and was considered an adult at her first menstruation.
Today, studies show that for men the average age that they are considered “adults” is something like 31 years old! (Women it is 28 or something.) I don't know how they determined that. But knowing grown men that play video games all evening while ignoring their wife and kids that may be an indication.
And part/much of it is getting so many different viewpoints, that it takes so much longer to figure out what ones own values are.
Yes. Lewis called it. A long time ago.
But he wasn’t a prophet and wouldn’t have claimed to be.
He was a prophet in that he could observe, learn, reason and think under The Holy Spirits’s wisdom.
31 years old. I guess that is why Jason Aldean was sitting in OHP car acting like a baby. He said something about just being a 26 year old kid. Trooper did not care, he still arrested Jason.
Ping
Francis Schaeffer considered the C.S. Lewis novel “That Hideous Strength” to be prophetic.
Marxism is but one of many modern scientistic ideologies wherein Conditioners to reduce the human being to a soulless aspect of nature. Like the other systems, Marxism begins its process of social engineering (conditioning) by teaching humans that they are the product of evolution working on matter, thereby allowing them to be deconstructed and depersonalized. In this way the sense of their individual souls, intellect, free will, and conscience eventually fade to black since all four are shown by 'science' to be illusions.
Social engineering allows the New Man to imagine he is a bio-machine or hominid rather than the image bearer of the Triune Creator. This allows the New Man to sink into passive slavery to instincts and passions. In short, since the New Man has no real choice, whatever harm he does to others can never be his fault since ' science' has liberated the New Man from the burden of freedom. In this way, the New Man can fully enjoy his earthly rewards as a slave within a deterministic system of cause and effect unless truth and reality invade his collective darkness. Far from redeeming the New Man, social engineering has but brought back the Old Man of 2 Tim. 3:3.
Scientific engineering is based on the proposition that since man has evolved over millions of years from a sub-human past then logically he will evolve over time into something better or "post human."
Furthermore, it is the Elect, the already highly evolved and purified post-human race of god-men – the avatars of divine history leading the world to utopia (ie WEF) – who possess the godlike power to scientifically engineer the New Man who worships his 'creators.'
And so, Conditioners have already engineered a new conscience, which turns out to be the conscience of the old man
When Richard Nixon asked Russell Kirk what is the one book that he should read, Kirk said “The Abolition of Man”.
It really is relevant to what is happening today.
I read it twice and hated it both times, but I do agree with that assessment.
Thanks for posting!
Close yours eyes, and start walking. Reality is what hits you in the face when you get to a wall.
That other world, the one that exists behind your eyelids, that’s just pretend. Sometimes lots of people like to pretend together. That’s still pretend.
At this point inevitably the scapegoating begins. Everyone has something they dislike, and the "naturally good" folks invariably pick out some institution or group of people that they demonize as this "source of all evil." Dawkins blames the Christians, others have blamed the Jews, or blacks, or capitalists, etc. From here it is a short walk to the natural conclusion: Utopia could be ours, if we just stamp out the Source of All Evil that is corrupting society!
And so a nice-sounding belief that everyone is naturally good becomes, by ruthless logic, a driver of genocide against the scapegoated group. You can see this again and again through history. Such a nice-sounding idea. Such hellish consequences. All because they won't acknowledge that sin begins in their own heart.
Should read “why then do we sin?” in the 2nd sentence, sorry.
In my opinion, the best thing I’ve read by Lewis, ever.
I have been watching lots of Nixon interviews and stuff lately. Everyone comments on how he answers things in an intelligent, thoughtful and respectful manner. And how politicians today could learn something from him.
BUT - would the people listening today be able to follow along on a 5 minute long response to a question? We have been conditioned by TV and the internet to 15-second sound bites.
Just the other day I was out walking the dog in the evening and he stopped by a bush. I could see the glow of a TV in a window. It would change colors as it changed scenes or dialogue I suppose. Every 15 to 20 seconds the glow would change.
In the 3rd sci fi book of the trilogy of C.S. Lewis
Our academia is pretty much like the academia of
That Hideouse Strength
Sick
Sicker
Sickest.
This is what invariably happens when there is no accepted absolute truth and everything is relative. Take out the Creator/Lawgiver and every man does what is right in his own eyes. Man, left to his own devices and because of his innate sin nature, will always gravitate to anarchy and devolve into his own destruction. How many times does it have to happen before we finally get it?
Based on what Scripture shows us happens at the end of Satan’s 1,000 year imprisonment when he is released for a short time, ..... never.
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