Communist goal #27 (from “The Naked Communist”): “...replace revealed religion with ‘social’ religion...”
The Manchurian Candidate stays true to form while America sleeps.
I had the opportunity to teach my husband’s confirmation class last night. 7th and 8th-graders. I was introducing the Apostle’s Creed and we were talking about what a creed is and why we have a statement of what we believe, so we addressed the issue of why it matters WHAT we believe. I told them about the little boy who had watched a superhero movie and really BELIEVED he could fly, so he jumped off his roof and died. A person can very sincerely believe the wrong thing - a dangerous thing that will end up killing them.
That led into a discussion of the difference between man’s own attempts to save himself and God’s revealed salvation. I told them what awaits them in many colleges and universities: the philosophy that God is just an invented Santa Claus to get people to be good little boys and girls, but if people could just self-actualize, give up their greed, and get along we could create a Utopia on earth...
I think they got it. I think they saw the flaws in both the epistemology/method for discovering truth and the conclusions reached by the post-modern, everybody-makes-their-own-truth epistemology. Sure, a person has the right to believe that a cardboard bridge will get them across the raging river, but that doesn’t mean it will. And the consequences for believing/trusting a lie are drastic. We owe it to ourselves and everybody else to seriously investigate what we believe and why, because truth is real and it matters whether we believe it or not.
If we can get the attention of the kids before the society numbs them totally, there is hope for our society. Reaching them before their minds have been deadened is the challenge.