wow. that was good.
don’t recognize most of the names, but what they said I have thought many times.
Even if I were not Christian, I would want the West to be Christian and I would follow Judeo-Christian law.
Because without it, there’s nothing.
The west just dissolves into sex, narctics, alcohol, theft, cheating, lying, calling men women and women men, and on and on.
why would you not take what you want or do whatever you want if there is no meaing? feeling good would be all that mattered,
how depressing.
At least America has the heartland which my sister told me is still God and Guns, thank goodness.
She visited 12 states and said it was an America she’s never seen before. We live in NYC. well, she moved to NJ.
I don’t know Germany well at all. I don’t now if they have these bastions that we have.
from what I understand, merkel is part of the Conservative party there!!!! if that’s the case, they are doomed.
God is dead. If not in reality, at least in Western Europe.
Reminds me of when Michael Corleone sees the Cuban rebel jump into the car on a suicide mission.
when asked what he thinks it means he said “it means they can win”
history repeats itself.
Rev. Robert Barron was chagrined, but not entirely surprised when he read Woody Allen’s recent ruminations on ultimate things. To state it bluntly, said Rev. Barron, Woody could not be any bleaker in regard to the issue of meaning in the universe. We live, he said,
"... in a godless and purposeless world. The earth came into existence through mere chance and one day it, along with every work of art and cultural accomplishment, will be incinerated. The universe as a whole will expand and cool until there is nothing left but the void. Every hundred years or so, he continued, a coterie of human beings will be “flushed away†and another will replace it until it is similarly eliminated. So why does he bother making films — roughly one every year? Well, he explained, in order to distract us from the awful truth about the meaninglessness of everything, we need diversions, and this is the service that artists provide." (Woody Allen’s Bleak Vision, nationalreview.com, Aug. 12, 2014)
By his own willful choice, Woody Allen is a nihilist---a dehumanized evolutionary humanist. The source of his nihilism is the belief that our Heavenly Father is dead and there is no Heaven above or Hell below, no original sin to repent of thus no need of a Savior, no transcendent Moral Law and no Absolute Truth, that all truth is relative. According to Eugene (Fr. Seraphim) Rose, nihilism is the basic philosophy of the 20th century:
"It has become, in our time, so widespread and pervasive, has entered so thoroughly and so deeply into the minds and hearts of all men living today, that there is no longer any 'front' on which it may be fought." The heart of this philosophy, he said, was "expressed most clearly by Nietzsche and by a character of Dostoyevsky in the phrase: 'God is dead, therefore man becomes God and everything is possible." (Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, oodegr.com)
Rev. Richard Wurmbrand (1909 –2001), a Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent possesses keen insight into nihilism because it was his own philosophy at one time. But after fourteen years of physical and mental torment in an atheist created hell on earth, this courageous pastor emerged with an unquenchable love for Jesus Christ and his fellow man. According to Wurmbrand, nihilism freezes and hardens the souls of its' dehumanized believers:
"You freeze when you think of yourself as only a complicated product of chemical reactions....You cannot see stars (or your soul) through the microscope or microbes through the telescope. Men who cannot think rightly come to the conclusion that God does not exist because they cannot find Him through the senses, which are functions of life in the realm of matter. Senses are not the right means to see God." (The Answer to the Atheist's Handbook, Wurmbrand, p. 105) The Lord has set before us life and death, blessing and cursing,
"therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life..." Deuteronomy 30:19-20
The Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Word become Flesh, Jesus Christ the Physician came to heal the spiritually sick. But whoever rejects the Physician and his own soul, whether through indifference or outright denial, rejects His prescription, hence destroys him or herself as nihilists are doing.