![]() No one knows how much of the substance of life has been poured out before the graven images of time, upon the stained altars of gods who are not, and of demons who are. The mind reels in the attempt to understand the insanity of paganism. ![]() Modern cultic, pagan religions have built their appeal on this vacuum. Ignorant of the great moral and religious strengths of our country, they were unable to impart these to the new generation. The children from this background have now become the parents, teachers, political leaders, new media people, playwrights, actors, entertainers, clergymen, business and professional people. Now, two generations of graduates have been subjected to these godless philosophies through our schools. How will one find truth if he is convinced it doesn't exist? Our American youth have thus been disenfranchised from our Christian heritage. Alan Bloom demonstrated, from simply a secular background, that relativism is intellectually and morally bankrupt. We have disconnected ourselves from the benefits of 2,000 years of the painful lessons we call Western Civilization. In our strive to be "open" to multiculturalism, we have abandoned the quest for truth-in fact, denying its existence 5-in exchange for "value relativism." 4Īlan Bloom was probably the most surprised when his book, The Closing of the American Mind-after 30 years at University of Chicago-made the cover of a major news magazine a few years ago. The deliberate dumbing-down of America is precisely the subversive goal of Goals 2000, Outcome Based Education and related programs. The astonishing shock that awaits anyone looking into this seriously, is that this is the intended result! One would presume that this was a result of poor or inept management. The continual upscaling of school budgets has resulted in depressingly poorer performances. ![]() Through the teachings of John Dewey's humanism, his atheism, amorality, evolution, and one-world socialism permeated our educational system and excluded from our textbooks the moral and Biblical teachings which had been the bedrock of our American culture. In any cultural war, truth is the first casualty.Ī Culture Committed to the Pursuit of Truth?Įarly in this century, many "intellectuals" in our society became enamored with the doctrines of Freudianism, the materialism of Feurbach, the nihilism of Nietzsche, the dialectic of Hegel, the communism of Marx, along with Behaviorism, Socialism, Existentialism ("do your own thing"), Rationalism, Fabianism, and Humanism.ĭavid Breese's recent book, Seven Men Who Rule the World From the Grave, highlights the impacts of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, George Wellhausen, Sigmund Freud, John Maynard Keynes, Soren Kierkegaard and, of course, John Dewey. Perhaps most fearsome of all, it has also ushered in a wholesale abandonment of truth. This "fabulous century" has ushered in astonishing changes in the realms of technology and yet, strangely, it has also probed new depths of darkness with devastating wars and monstrous new weapons, yielding the bloodiest, most revolutionary, most unpredictable century of any in history. The pursuit of truth is our greatest challenge in every one of our endeavors. Truth is the key to success, fulfillment, victory, or achieving any worthwhile goal. ![]() And yet a moment's consideration quickly reveals that truth is our most precious treasure to be coveted. Few of us have the will to raise the question ourselves. "What is Truth?" the famed Roman procurator cynically asked rhetorically. " Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth." Ephesians 6:14 2Īctually, the Holy Spirit is consistent in His use of idioms: these same elements had been alluded to in the Old Testament. The detailed description of the armor may stem from Paul's being chained to a Roman soldier while in prison awaiting trial. In Ephesians 6, Paul provides us with a detailed description of the Armor of God. And the time to "put it on" is before the battle begins, not during. Notice that we must be completely armed: one or two pieces won't do. The Bible commands us, with all urgency, to "put on the whole armor of God." 1 What is this? What does this really mean? If we are not properly prepared, we are sitting ducks. Last month we began a series of articles on the "Armor of God." You and I are engaged in a desperate warfare: a spiritual warfare.
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