Posted on 04/16/2022 4:33:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The guest essay literally proposes killing God.
“The God-shaped hole” posits that humans are hardwired to seek meaning through a divinity. Certainly, no culture has ever been without a God—and that’s true for Marxist cultures, which have sought to make a god of man, always with deadly results.
The most recent example of this comes from a guest essay at the New York Times from a very angry, lapsed Orthodox Jew who insists that the world would be better if it “passed over” God. It’s a sad, foolish essay but one that the Times thought worth running on the holiest week in America.
Shalom Auslander (a name that roughly translates to “an outsider to peace”) was raised in a very orthodox Jewish community that taught him that God was something so fearful that he lived his life in terror. Not surprisingly, he rebelled and became as fanatically anti-religious as his upbringing had been fanatically religious.
Auslander’s fanatic hostility to God reflects a mind that never progressed beyond its childish understanding of the deity. He explains that, when he was a child, the rabbi at his Yeshiva taught his class that it was a good thing, when the plagues came, that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, necessitating the killing of the Egyptian firstborn to force Pharaoh’s hand:
God, it seems, paints with a wide brush. He paints with a roller. In Egypt, said our rabbi, he even killed first-born cattle. He killed cows. If he were mortal, the God of Jews, Christians and Muslims would be dragged to The Hague. And yet we praise him. We emulate him. We implore our children to be like him.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
As if we didn’t know who they were and what they were up to.
Auslander. A self hating German jew? If he had any self respect he’d change his name to a fully Hebrew Shalom Gershom, (a name that roughly translates as stranger here [in the land/place/state of] peace).
So long as men insist on judging G-d by there own limited and myopic perspective, they will find Him wanting. He doesn’t see through our eyes, think with our brains, or judge by our wisdom or experience. He is that He is, and is not just a superhero.
Welcome to 2022. We have soup lines...
Although I suspect the second Great Depression will be delayed until after the midterms and will be blamed on those Wascally Wepublicans, and Wussia!
I would add humorless.
I use a humor test to filter out people who I associate with.
Much is extraneous. Especially “laws” and procedures made up by mankind.
I think Farag has it about right. A, Bs, & Cs.
A: Admit you’re a sinner. Many defend right there, and think their moral compass is better than God’s. Admission needs some humility.
B: Believe in your heart that Jesus really did sacrifice his life for you, as God’s agent; and that he rose from the dead as “first fruits.” Jesus paid your sin-blll. (Frankly, deeply, I don’t understand it; but I don’t have to — I just need to Believe it. And I do. I believe it’s called “grace” — an unearned Gift From God. In the words of the old gospel song, “You don’t need no baggage, you just thank the Lord.”) One doesn’t merit Grace by acts: one merely accepts the Gift, with thanks.
C: Confess your faith — aloud — to any who will listen.
Some will attack the simple naiveté of that, but that’s ok. They’re free to do so. I hope they will soon see a better path.
That may not work for you; but it works for me.
Some already believe it. Some may come to believe it.
Some will never believe it. May they change, and Live.
“You don’t need no ticket, you just climb on board.”
I don’t think the left does not believe there is a God. If they did, they would not be in such a fight against Christianity. They just would not care. I think the left is in rebellion against God.
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It sounds like a description of the Devil if you ask me.
I think socialism was inspired by Satan as his latest attempt to destroy Christianity.
Errrr, that was tried once before about 2,000 years ago by the Romans. It failed then and it would fail now, cause IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!! He died because He allowed it Himself. Then He arose, never to do that again. He did it for us if we are smart enough to understand and accept His free gift of salvation by GRACE and GRACE ALONE. No works. Just faith. Free gift. You don't work for free gifts.
The Times is Satanic.
Although I suspect the second Great Depression will be delayed until after the midterms and will be blamed on those Wascally Wepublicans, and Wussia!
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Listen to the ‘Old Man in a Chair’ - Vernon Coleman
https://uncanceled.news/dr-vernon-coleman-we-have-eight-months/
A really good point.
Good point the left are not known to like much of anything and have a lot of hate for it.
Quite the talk.
Eight months?
That’s mid-December. Safely after the elections. Just in time to nuke Christmas.
We have a leader-shaped hole, which is basically a good and natural thing. It’s how we have evolved, and it’s why countries with a single leader tend to last longer.
We can pick a bad one or a good one of course.
I loved one of the comments from the Breightbart article on this:
"Notice they don't want to get rid of Satan."
To the left Government is their only god. They seek government approval in every decision they make.
And the Tribe chose Good Friday to crucify Jesus. Bad timing and paradoxical timing: not mutually exclusive.
When men chooses not to believe in God, he doesn’t thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
GK Chesterson.
Fro decades the MSM has down this every year, revealing their fantasy in their war against the living and true God they maintain. And thus they dare not attack Islam at any time.
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