To: chronic_loser
Another way of looking at the issue
Some people are passive towards the future, others are active.
- Passive folks let The State define the future, by imprinting statist blueprints on their children.
- Active folks raise restless offspring, who do not take the status quo for granted, or assume that it's the norm.
I think it's time to throw in a quote from my favorite marxist jesuit, the late Ivan Illich:
Some fortuitous coincidence will render publicly obvious the structural contradictions between stated purposes and effective results in our major institutions. People will suddenly find obvious what is now evident to only a few . . . Like other widely shared insights, this one will have the potential of turning public imagination inside out. Large institutions can quite suddenly lose their respectability, their legitimacy, and their reputation for serving the public good. It happened to the Roman Church in the Reformation, to royalty in the Revolution. The unthinkable became obvious overnight: that people could and would behead their rulers. (Illich's Tools for Conviviality, p. 111)
The intellectual powerhouses behind the flourishing home and Christian school movements are
post-millenial. We claim the future for our God by (re)claiming our children from the state for God.
Who wants to join me on the winning side of a cultural revolution?
58 posted on
12/22/2004 4:42:13 AM PST by
TomSmedley
(Calvinist, optimist, home schooling dad, exuberant husband, technical writer)
To: TomSmedley
me? I am sorta pan mil. It will all pan out in the end.
I have read most of the "spokesmen" for the various positions and remain firmly unconvinced(!) by all.
I am sure that the dispensational approach is distinctively UNbiblical, but besides that, I really don't have an eschatology other than the famouse boy scout stuff "be prepared."
It is true, however, that the greatest missionary movement of the 17th 18th and 19th centuries were all post mil at their core. It is, as Marcellus Kik states "An Eschatology of Victory."
79 posted on
12/22/2004 9:01:33 AM PST by
chronic_loser
(Go to my blog: http://snarktown.blogspot.com)
To: TomSmedley
Plenty truth in that perspective of seizing the day, hour, week . . . territory . . . and especially our kids from the globalists.
82 posted on
12/22/2004 9:50:58 AM PST by
Quix
(5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
To: TomSmedley
Who wants to join me on the winning side of a cultural revolution? I'm with you!
325 posted on
12/23/2004 3:07:19 PM PST by
Galatians513
(John Kerry is our thankgiving turkey)
To: TomSmedley
I haven't seen reliable stats which would confirm your assertion at all about the bluck of the home school and Christian school people being categorized as post millenial.
466 posted on
01/17/2005 8:01:09 PM PST by
Quix
(HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. 2 TIM 3:5)
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