America is schizophrenic. We have this article praising President Trump as a man of high moral standards, on the one hand, and the entire Democrat party insisting that he is a mad dog with little principle and no mental ability. WTH? Does this point to a deeper cognitive break in the American psyche? You betcha.
We have 2 sides in a political struggle each claiming the other side is certifiably insane. Is there a deeper division that this conflict represents? Yep again.
The division in our culture has as its fault line belief in God. Democrats are the party of atheism. Republicans are the party of Judeo Christianity. Never the twain shall meet.
Démocrats boo the mention of God at their national convention. Republicans cheer when God is invoked. The division goes to our understanding of the nature of reality.
Democrats claim to be committed to a scientific view of nature, as though God and science are polar opposites. Republicans, on the other hand, are content to grant God absolute dominion over nature and, by extension, the scientific method.
The real conflict lies in the source of truth for each side.
Truth, for the anti-Trumper derives from the searcher. It is not so much that the scientist discovers truth as that he determines what is true by virtue of his keen ability to espouse his position. “It is true because I say it is true,” is the mantra of the leftist. Truth, for the atheist, grows out of the political struggle. Ultimately this is the view of the CCP, the USSR, the Third Reich, and all other dictatorial governments.
The struggle is real. President Trump is either a man of high moral character or he is a dunce with malevolent agenda. Each of us must choose which is true. Jesus demands we choose. Which way will you go? The path is narrow and difficult that leads to salvation, but the slide is deep and easy that leads to damnation. There is no other Truth. I know this because God has said it and His authority over the very nature of Truth is absolute. I stake my soul on that proposition.
“The path is narrow and difficult that leads to salvation, but the slide is deep and easy that leads to damnation.”
Matthew 7:13
One of the few biblical verses I have committed to memory.
EXCELLENT post! Gets to root issues and shows why repentance and revival are essential.
I’m 10 days late in acknowledging it, but perhaps others will read it.