domingo, 22 de diciembre de 2013

There is no other answer than for the Church to radically live the Gospel, to engage society with vigor and hope, and, thereby, re-convert the world.



And what must be done in response




Let’s pull back the curtain and have a good look at the Wizard; that is, if we still have eyes to see.

Not too many decades ago, there was a solid American consensus that faithfulness in marriage, complementary masculinity and femininity, belief in a benevolent God, and bearing/raising children were good things.

No one needs to be told that things are different now, and many are convinced that the changes are for the better.

So how did this occur?

These changes didn’t occur organically; that is, by a broad-based evolution in Americans’ perspective. Rather, this transformation was directed by a subculture with a vested interest. Like the Jacobins in the late 18th century, a self-interested subculture used legitimate concerns about women’s rights and abuses of minority rights to spearhead its agenda. Thus, the objective of this subculture was not justice but utter transformation of the culture; like a house with electrical problems in several rooms, we didn’t re-wire the problem rooms, we bulldozed the house.

Using the educational system, the media, and the entertainment industry, this subculture set about convincing Americans that its agenda was normative, and that traditional beliefs about faith and morality were primitive and repressive.

The elements of this subculture’s agenda?

Convincing Americans that faith in a benevolent Creator is irrational and unscientific, or diverting Americans from the God of Scripture to an amalgamation of every god and New Age formula, thus a god who doesn’t stand for anything except self-fulfillment and “social progress” (whatever the subculture defines this to mean), dogmatic environmentalism, and tolerance for those things the subculture values (but not for those things it opposes). The outcome was the abandonment of objective truth and its replacement with beliefs that are, as George Weigel puts it, “malleable and subject to human willfulness”.

Converting Americans to faux-reason and faux-science, with popular consensus substituting for evidence. By most objective metrics, the environment in America is vastly improved compared to 25/50/100 years, but most Americans hold the opposite view because popular consensus overwhelms evidence. Another example: empirical evidence proves that one-man, one-woman faithful marriages foster responsible adults, whereas the abandonment of traditional families produces dysfunctional, even savage societies, so why does the consensus insist that the traditional family is no better than single-parent homes, or any number of transient adults?

Using the “religion” of psychology to convince Americans to give in to their urges and to consider faithfulness and self-discipline within marriage as unhealthy, repressive brakes on self-fulfillment. With this transformation, intimacy is no longer a uniquely transcendent experience but merely sex as recreation.

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