Posted on 04/12/2005 3:33:17 PM PDT by swilhelm73
R.C. Sproul, the prominent Protestant pastor and theologian, thinks the Terri Schiavo case marks a huge, perhaps irreversible, moral decline:
"Many years ago, Harold Lindsell described America's culture after the revolution of the 1960s as 'neo-pagan culture.' I think now what Terri Schiavo's death marks is the transition to a neo-barbarian culture," Sproul said.
Democrats (and more than a few Republicans) think the GOP stepped in it by intervening in the Schiavo case. They cite polls which indicated between two-thirds and three-quarters of Americans disapproved of the bill Congress passed to permit the federal courts to take a second look at the facts in the case of the brain-damaged Florida woman.
I think both those who think America is going to hell in a handbasket and those who think Democrats will benefit from the Schiavo affair are mistaken.
America has far more to be proud of than any other nation. But we've had a lot to be ashamed of, too. Slavery was legal until 1865, segregation until 1964. Our treatment of the American Indians was always unfair, and often genocidal. Abortion and euthanasia are moral abominations. But are they worse than slavery, or massacres of American Indian women and children?
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Sproul is a favorite of mine...but I think perhaps he's guilty of the Schaivo Echo Syndrome here.
"Abortion and euthanasia are moral abominations. But are they worse than slavery, or massacres of American Indian women and children?"
This is the
'we may be bad but we're not as bad as those people' argument
- those people being our forebearers who allowed slavery and the mistreatment of Indians.
This is the typical reasoning one expects from a proud, arrogant, stiff necked people that we have become in this nation.
The Schiavo case was a line in the sand. God drew that line and forced everyone to make a choice. Do you honor life or do you love death?
The author posits that the growth of the mega churches portends a new Great Awakening. Problem is all the mega churches are too busy with their apostate pursuit of wealth and self fulfillment to busy themselves with true humility and repentence which revival requires
Jesus said to whom much is given, much is required. If that is true, and I believe it is, we are in for a major chastisment from God.
***wealth and self fulfillment to busy themselves with true humility and repentence which revival requires ***
Insightful.
"Excuse me sir, would you like a latte and a scone as your kneeling there weeping over your sins?"
"I think now what Terri Schiavo's death marks is the transition to a neo-barbarian culture," Sproul said.
Well put, and sadly probably true.
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