Posted on 09/13/2006 9:40:35 PM PDT by Simi Valley Tom
When I go speak to my class at a seminary at one of the top ten universities in the United States, I find that most of the students seeking ordination, even the smartest and most gracious ones, have a deep-seated hatred for their own culture. They hate white males, Christianity and Western Civilization.
Entitled “The Enemies in Their Midst,” The Los Angeles Times had a front page article on Sept. 1 talking about Britain's (and Europe’s) homegrown problem – Muslim militants converts "with British passports and the accompanying resources and western ways, as well as links to lethal [terrorist] networks in Pakistan." The article stressed that homegrown Muslim radicals in Europe result from "open borders, tolerant laws and social alienation." Who would have thought that the Los Angeles Times would perceive the source of the politically correct problem facing Christendom today.
Part of this social alienation is the schools and universities that have been attacking the United States of America for the last 50 years. Another part is a steady stream of movies like TALLADEGA NIGHTS, THE DA VINCI CODE, THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, THE LAST SAMURAI, FAHRENHEIT 9/11, SAVED!, GANGS OF NEW YORK, JESUS CAMP, and KINGDOM OF HEAVEN that attack Western Civilization and the United States, the Church, white men, business, and Christianity, all of whom are the last acceptable villains in our society.
Herbert Marcuse, the left-wing teacher who invented Marxist tolerance and political correctness in the 1960s, would be delighted that the West is rearing children who hate themselves, hate their culture, hate their country, and will eventually bring the downfall of their own civilization. Marcuse developed the politically correct doctrine that these young alienated radicals should be tolerant of everybody, including sexual perverts and killers, except bourgeois western Christian culture. Too many of our children in the United States and Europe have learned his lesson well.
The left-wing movies and television programs coming out of some segments of Hollywood and the entertainment industry are part of the problem. Too many of our young people are buying into the evil propaganda in these movies and programs.
For instance, in Great Britain, a majority think their government is the cause of the Underground London bombings, not militant Islam or terrorist nations like Iran. Even more disturbing, the Sunday Times in London reported earlier this year that 14,200 of England's "elite," including top landowners, celebrities and offspring of major establishment figures, have converted to Islam in recent years.
According to the Times study, carried out by Muslim convert Yahya (formerly Jonathan) Brit, the son of Lord Brit, the former director-general of the BBC, many of the converts have been inspired by the writings of Charles Le Gai Eaton. Eaton is a former Foreign Office diplomat and author of ISLAM AND THE DESTINY OF MAN.
"I have received letters from people," Eaton says, "who are put off by the wishy-washy standards of contemporary Christianity, and they are looking for a religion which does not compromise too much with the modern world."
C.S. Lewis, the great defender of the Christian faith, once observed that a watered-down Christianity is absolutely useless to anyone. He also urged the Church to go out and convert university intellectuals and other cultural leaders to the Christian faith, because those are the people who will train up the next generation in the way they should go.
The Church today, however, and many of our schools, are filled with untrained anti-intellectuals who do not have the necessary tools to ably defend their faith in the public square. Most Christians don't even believe in the inerrancy of the original Greek manuscripts of the New Testament documents. Neither do most Jews believe in the divine authority of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses.
That's why our young people are easy prey to the Muslim fanatics, Marxist radicals and sexual hedonists in our world, in our schools, and in the products of our ubiquitous mass media.
It's time that people in the West stopped breeding self-hatred and boldly defend the biblical, religious, political, moral, and cultural traditions that made Western Civilization so strong.
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Also, Kingdom of Heaven was an awesome movie and not at all anti-Christian.
BS. America has freedom of speech, Europe is closed to freedom. That is why they hate themselves.
Romans-9:33
As it is written:
"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."
I don't see how The Last Samurai fits into that list of movies. It's not set in the west, it doesn't mention the west and it doesn't mention Christianity at all. I thought it was a great movie about the end of the samurai culture in Japan and nothing more nor less.
"Kingdom of Heaven was an awesome movie and not at all anti-Christian."
Are you kidding? It opens with a priest defiling a dead body, depicts the Templars as savage brutes, presents Saladin as a superhero, and venerates its nominally Christian "hero" for surrendering Jerusalem. It ignores 400 years of Muslim persecution of Christians throughout the Holy Land (which gave rise to the Crusades), distorts history, and seizes every opportunity to trash the Christian faith.
When they see the true church operating in the fullness of His Spirit, the multitudes will be running toward the church, not away from it.
Ephesians 3
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
I trust that I don't need to post the < /sarc > tag.
Fine, straightforward commentary, and thanks!
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I usually pick up sarcasm without the tag. But I booted that one big time!
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I recently read that one should pray for four hours a day. Four hours a day (we all laugh) I don't have the time. Then I thought about about all the hours I spend, even when I don't seem to have it pooping around on the web, or watching t.v or just generally self obsessed. They say prayer can change everything. Including the direction of the world. So I will try to pray at all times throughout the day.
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Dinesh D'Souza has a new book coming out that covers this very topic.
http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385510127
The Enemy At Home
The Cultural Left and Its Responsibilty for 9/11
In THE ENEMY AT HOME, bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza makes the startling claim that the 9/11 attacks and other terrorist acts around the world can be directly traced to the ideas and attitudes perpetrated by America’s cultural left.
D’Souza shows that liberals—people like Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Bill Moyers, and Michael Moore—are responsible for fostering a culture that angers and repulses not just Muslim countries but also traditional and religious societies around the world. Their outspoken opposition to American foreign policy—including the way the Bush administration is conducting the war on terror—contributes to the growing hostility, encouraging people both at home and abroad to blame America for the problems of the world. He argues that it is not our exercise of freedom that enrages our enemies, but our abuse of that freedom—from the sexual liberty of women to the support of gay marriage, birth control, and no-fault divorce, to the aggressive exportation of our vulgar, licentious popular culture.
The cultural wars at home and the global war on terror are usually viewed as separate problems. In this groundbreaking book, D’Souza shows that they are one and the same. It is only by curtailing the left’s attacks on religion, family, and traditional values that we can persuade moderate Muslims and others around the world to cooperate with us and begin to shun the extremists in their own countries.
I'm looking forward to it - I've been a fan of Dinesh for a long time.
Serious question here - I hope someone can clear up my quandry.
For those who deny all religious belief in their lives, from whatever source - ie: Christianity, Judaeism - why would they seek out another faith at all?
My deeper concern is that many people have chosen Atheism or Agnosticism or denial there is any higher power. The numbers of disbelievers are growing.
Me too. I resisted watching it because of Tom Cruise. It was however a good movie that described the problems people have with change.
That same phenomenon is responsible for the uprising of Islamic fanatics. They resist the change occuring in their world.
That's anti-Christian? I thought it was part of the Democratic platform for 2006.
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