The West was defined by Christianity. When the West lost its mind to Darwin, Freud and Marx, it became a dead man walking. The only hope for the resurrection of the West is a return to Christianity. There are some glimmers of hope. The more science discovers about DNA and genetics, the more obvious Creation becomes. Systems as mind-bogglingly complex as the genetic basis of life do not self-create or "evolve" over "billions of years;" they devolve instead. The Second Law of Thermodynamics mandates man to molecules devolution, not molecules to man evolution, especially as the extent of time increases. We were created, and we desperately need to return to the worship of our Creator.
You are correct, but how will this happen? We need a new breed of politician who is grounded in Natural Law and is willing to speak God’s Truths. Some will end up martyrs. We also need brave priests and ministers and rabbis who unapologetically admonish political leaders for ignoring God’s laws in their quest for power. More of these will be martyrs.
“We also need brave priests and ministers and rabbis who unapologetically admonish political leaders for ignoring God’s laws in their quest for power”.
We had one such priest here in Australia – his name was Cardinal George Pell. But he spoke out once too often and was accused of heinous crimes by a de-facto anonymous accuser at the behest of the police of the State of Victoria. He was brought to trial, convicted, and sent to prison. An appeal to the Victorian Court of Appeals failed to overturn the conviction, basically because two of the three Appeal Court judges decided to upend the centuries-old British legal principle governing the onus of proof, so Pell was sent back to prison and another year of solitary confinement.
As part of the judgement, the dissenting judge in the Victorian Court of Appeals wrote a devastating opinion of over 100 pages and this became the legal platform for an appeal to Australia’s highest court – the ‘High court of Australia’. This court unanimously threw out the conviction and set Pell free. In the face of this, many malicious inhabitants of the media – led by the government owned ‘Australian Broadcasting Corporation’ (the ‘ABC’) - claimed that the High Court judges got it wrong and that Pell was truly guilty of the alleged crimes. When the Cardinal died two years ago his funeral requiem mass in Sydney’s Catholic cathedral was attended by over 2,000 mourners.
After seeing what those with political power were able to do to the outspoken Cardinal Pell, his fellow Catholic ‘priests & ministers’ in Australia appear to have adopted a low profile and do not openly confront the Australian political and media machines in their ongoing drive to de-christianise Australian society.
Since its beginnings over 230 years ago as a British penal colony, Catholics in Australia (a 20% minority) have had to put up with an underlying culture of antipathy and discrimination just below the surface of Australian society, so it is not surprising that their ‘priests & ministers’ are reluctant to stick their necks out to antagonise people with power who seek to further de-christianise the countries cultural ethos. And by the way - the dissenting judge in the Victorian Court of Appeals who could clearly see the injustice of what was being done to Pell – he was not a Catholic. He was was Jewish.
Yes. In Christianity we find valid answers, but the faith has lost its way. And, lacking a deep understanding of its own principles, the religion flounders and struggles. Clergy, inept and unable to address reality, lead the faithful down blind alleys that were never mapped with early theology, the patristic tradition. Aquinas, with his rascal brothers, the Dominicans, drove theology off its true path into the thickets of Aristotelian Realism which left the Church ripe for destruction at the hands of the materialism of Darwin, Freud, and especially Marx. Saint John Paul II, with the help of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, pointed the way back with the beautiful encyclical Faith and Reason, and Ratzinger, as Benedict XVI, led us back to the early theologians who married Idealism with Christianity. (For example, Plotinus and the Gospel of John, as recognized by Origen and Augustine and Bonaventure.) It is time for a glorious rebirth of the faith with its full, rich truths.
Western Europe will be an Islamic Third-World territory. The native European population is no longer reproducing ("The Patriarchy" is so despicable), they have no moral grounding (other than maybe "climate change!") and numerous areas within their countries are already being ceded to "migrants."
The U.S. is not far behind. The next election for New York City mayor may demonstrate it.
Because the US has a way of self correcting almost at the last minute, I have hope that even NYC will get smart before its mayoral election this fall. Europe on the other hand seems intent on suicide.
Without a renaissance of faith in God and the teachings of scripture Europe's fate is a dark, dystopian existence in a century. The ascendance of Atheism and rejection of faith, and/or following the great faiths that have had Atheists installed atop them - Charles atop the Protestant Church and the Marxist (Atheist by definition) Francis atop the Catholic Church, similar in all the great religions today - has led humanity to the place in history. And not just in Europe. In the US, North America, Latin America, Africa, etc, the same circumstances we all face. We cannot be free societies and live our best lives without God, his laws. Independent from the State, man's laws.
I know this truth in my bones. It can be no other way. Man makes for a ruthless master, lacking the benevolence and humility that God inspires man to. We must reject Atheists as leaders. Our forefathers had that right. A heart and mind emptied of God is the Devil's playground.
Truly, we should react with disgust at the installation of Bergoglio, the Marxist, as Pope Francis (no Francis there!) by forces of evil (specifically the Soros cartel). The ruin has spread so deep that perhaps now we can all join together, if need be outside the institutional structures, and revive the faith and its glory that brings grace to Man.
Unless they change direction very soon, Europeans will live according to the precepts of the Koran amid the rubble of the great cities that used to be there.
A century from now “Christian” Europe will be Muslim Europe, and completely unrecognizable. The great cathedrals and universities will be rubble. The only thing that stops it would be nuclear annihilation, or the end of the world. The writing has been on the wall for some time now.
Formation / Transformation of the EU from a commerce relationship to a political one has caused significant damage to member states. Too numerous to list in this platform.
What possesses leadership of a Western nation (in Europe or in the US) to willingly encourage and assist in the importation of an enemy of its own civilization ? An enemy that their ancestors died fighting to keep from invading these same lands as in Europe. And in the US, imported and encouraged a variety of enemies that have been allowed into the country and an unknown extent of evil that they have brought with them. Some have speculated that this was done because of the sharp decline in birth rates, others have cited what is know as the Kalergi Plan. In either case, this is a purposeful invitation for ones own destruction so it remains a mystery to some extent. One near certainty is that Christianity, which is the foundational restraint Western humanity has prospered with, is the target because attacking this will rid the world of a powerful force against evil. And who would want to rid the world of Christians ? Satan, of course.
"People with power and wealth have often been lulled into believing that they are far more secure than they really are." Ah, yes, the illusion of the material world, the temporal and transitory, praised during forgetfulness of that which is eternal and holy. A story played over and over. The choice of T.S. Eliot as a guide through the ruined world is excellent. Thanks for this reflection.
Yes...Stephen Meyer and others covered the topic of "creationism" vs atheism...
I do not believe the subject is settled in anyway....Even Albert Einstein agreed!
- Stephen C. Meyer--Darwin's Doubt is another excellent book by Stephen Meyer. Stephen Meyer has clearly listened to the arguments of those who are sceptical about intelligent design and has addressed them thoroughly. It is really important that Darwinists read this book carefully and give a response.
You are saying that Meyer is a good source in supporting the valid points of intelligent design? (Not disagreeing. Just inquiring.) Has been some time since I kept up on the intelligent design movement, having previously found it an accurate argument, one that only needed further explanation.
Biochemist Michael Behe is excellent. He had no intention of entering into the conversation. But when he noticed that if for example one process was altered in a given cell where 100,000 processes were occurring simultaneously, the interconnections were so ingeniously interlocked that even one small change crashed the entire cell.
So he began to think about that.
The result was the book, Darwin's Black Box.
The book was named to the National Review's list of 100 most important books of the twentieth century.
George Gilder wrote that it “overthrows Darwin at the end of the twentieth century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning.”
Here is Behe speaking engagingly at the Institute of Catholic Culture.
I think they have a website...not sure. I read the book several years ago and agreed with the basic premise. There are quite a few other interesting books of that genre by the same basic group of people "INTENTIONAL DESIGN" I think it is called.
I am not religious in the traditional sense. But when the complexity and intricacy of even the simplest life forms is examined...it does add a lot of weight to those who are "believers"...I think he wrote a book called "The Miracle of the Cell" or someone else in that camp did. Apparently that camp thinks there are huge and unfilled gaps between "inanimate matter" and the one celled organisms. And then even more further on down a long the line of "evolution" ....I tend to be more tending towards "intentional creation"....But there are so many surprises coming out...
If there is a God....it would be a smart move to have this question be open so that the issue of "faith" could be examined. Human beings are free to "believe" or not to, As either camp can be "intellectually proven correct"
I have a religion....Here it is:
"Treat other people like you wish to be treated.....and let go of anger"
Hard sometimes....super hard.
On the other hand countless millions have died/are dying in "religious" wars. Weird and bizarre in my book and is good argument AGAINST a "religion" in any form. .
Those dying in the name of religion are probably not fighting and dying for religion at all. Those ‘soldiers’ are promised handsomely by ‘the devil’ to cause death and destruction. I, neither, call myself RELIGIOUS in the standard meaning. But the overwhelming AWE that smart, questioning people stir in me is driving me to continually QUESTION how, why, when, what’s next, what’s before, how to proceed. I have to immerse myself in what it/they offer and do read and listen to everything I deem worthy. I say let’s ignore the ‘devil’ (especially his/it’s minions in characters like Klaus Schwab, the new King of England…..and on and on as the list is long!). Don’t respond to MSM. Be silent after free hearing the shrill voices of the ‘devil’. Turn and focus on love. Pay attention to those you love.
Religion has been shortchanged in the public discourse, perhaps because of uneducated clergy. It is much more than be nice, feel nice. Rather it speaks to the very nature of life, of the nature of humans/souls, and the nature of God. In a mature and valid religion, one has profound insights into the very nature of Reality. Basically, the secular view is that one is wholly a biological entity, a herd animal. The religious view is that one's essence is an immortal spiritual being, a soul that has continuity of consciousness beyond this mortal life. These are huge differences that have profound effects on how we conduct ourselves.
I am reminded of Al-Andalus, the Iberian Penninsula, 711 AD - 1492... The islamic kingdoms. An apparently vibrant & multicultural civilisation, before Fundamentalism poisoned the well, where muslim, jew, christian co-habitated & art & science flourished... Followed by Felipe & Isabella and a very dull & cruel Catholicism, a bleak & black period of torture, burnings & torchings of strangers. The Inquistion.
Swings & Roudabouts. We descend into the barbarism of War Lords with AI & Bioweapons. (& cretins who seem unable to parse a meaningful sentence without ridiculous AI verbosity...,)
As a statement of my stubborn humanity I have disabled "spellchecker AND "hints" on "better" ways to write. AI can write a novel in the time I decide a word. Soon, it will TELL ("help") you what to write.
Christianity has been the basis and explanation of Western civilizations rise to world dominance since the conversion of Constantine. This has been especially so since the rise of protestantism. The moral failure of the Christian churches as they preached the boys into the trenches on both sides was the death knell of Christianity in the West. It has been in it's death throes ever since. Christianity has been replaced with materialism, hedonism, secularism, and existentialist-nihilism. As goes Christianity, so will go the West.
The West was defined by Christianity. When the West lost its mind to Darwin, Freud and Marx, it became a dead man walking. The only hope for the resurrection of the West is a return to Christianity. There are some glimmers of hope. The more science discovers about DNA and genetics, the more obvious Creation becomes. Systems as mind-bogglingly complex as the genetic basis of life do not self-create or "evolve" over "billions of years;" they devolve instead. The Second Law of Thermodynamics mandates man to molecules devolution, not molecules to man evolution, especially as the extent of time increases. We were created, and we desperately need to return to the worship of our Creator.
You are correct, but how will this happen? We need a new breed of politician who is grounded in Natural Law and is willing to speak God’s Truths. Some will end up martyrs. We also need brave priests and ministers and rabbis who unapologetically admonish political leaders for ignoring God’s laws in their quest for power. More of these will be martyrs.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗥𝗡𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝘅 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄...
https://t.co/O8krF0aqHy
Quoting GJTL:
“We also need brave priests and ministers and rabbis who unapologetically admonish political leaders for ignoring God’s laws in their quest for power”.
We had one such priest here in Australia – his name was Cardinal George Pell. But he spoke out once too often and was accused of heinous crimes by a de-facto anonymous accuser at the behest of the police of the State of Victoria. He was brought to trial, convicted, and sent to prison. An appeal to the Victorian Court of Appeals failed to overturn the conviction, basically because two of the three Appeal Court judges decided to upend the centuries-old British legal principle governing the onus of proof, so Pell was sent back to prison and another year of solitary confinement.
As part of the judgement, the dissenting judge in the Victorian Court of Appeals wrote a devastating opinion of over 100 pages and this became the legal platform for an appeal to Australia’s highest court – the ‘High court of Australia’. This court unanimously threw out the conviction and set Pell free. In the face of this, many malicious inhabitants of the media – led by the government owned ‘Australian Broadcasting Corporation’ (the ‘ABC’) - claimed that the High Court judges got it wrong and that Pell was truly guilty of the alleged crimes. When the Cardinal died two years ago his funeral requiem mass in Sydney’s Catholic cathedral was attended by over 2,000 mourners.
After seeing what those with political power were able to do to the outspoken Cardinal Pell, his fellow Catholic ‘priests & ministers’ in Australia appear to have adopted a low profile and do not openly confront the Australian political and media machines in their ongoing drive to de-christianise Australian society.
Since its beginnings over 230 years ago as a British penal colony, Catholics in Australia (a 20% minority) have had to put up with an underlying culture of antipathy and discrimination just below the surface of Australian society, so it is not surprising that their ‘priests & ministers’ are reluctant to stick their necks out to antagonise people with power who seek to further de-christianise the countries cultural ethos. And by the way - the dissenting judge in the Victorian Court of Appeals who could clearly see the injustice of what was being done to Pell – he was not a Catholic. He was was Jewish.
Yes. In Christianity we find valid answers, but the faith has lost its way. And, lacking a deep understanding of its own principles, the religion flounders and struggles. Clergy, inept and unable to address reality, lead the faithful down blind alleys that were never mapped with early theology, the patristic tradition. Aquinas, with his rascal brothers, the Dominicans, drove theology off its true path into the thickets of Aristotelian Realism which left the Church ripe for destruction at the hands of the materialism of Darwin, Freud, and especially Marx. Saint John Paul II, with the help of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, pointed the way back with the beautiful encyclical Faith and Reason, and Ratzinger, as Benedict XVI, led us back to the early theologians who married Idealism with Christianity. (For example, Plotinus and the Gospel of John, as recognized by Origen and Augustine and Bonaventure.) It is time for a glorious rebirth of the faith with its full, rich truths.
Wow! I just said pretty much the same thing before reading comment. Is the truth of it.
Billions of years never can make the mathematically impossible possible.
Western Europe will be an Islamic Third-World territory. The native European population is no longer reproducing ("The Patriarchy" is so despicable), they have no moral grounding (other than maybe "climate change!") and numerous areas within their countries are already being ceded to "migrants."
The U.S. is not far behind. The next election for New York City mayor may demonstrate it.
Because the US has a way of self correcting almost at the last minute, I have hope that even NYC will get smart before its mayoral election this fall. Europe on the other hand seems intent on suicide.
Without a renaissance of faith in God and the teachings of scripture Europe's fate is a dark, dystopian existence in a century. The ascendance of Atheism and rejection of faith, and/or following the great faiths that have had Atheists installed atop them - Charles atop the Protestant Church and the Marxist (Atheist by definition) Francis atop the Catholic Church, similar in all the great religions today - has led humanity to the place in history. And not just in Europe. In the US, North America, Latin America, Africa, etc, the same circumstances we all face. We cannot be free societies and live our best lives without God, his laws. Independent from the State, man's laws.
I know this truth in my bones. It can be no other way. Man makes for a ruthless master, lacking the benevolence and humility that God inspires man to. We must reject Atheists as leaders. Our forefathers had that right. A heart and mind emptied of God is the Devil's playground.
Truly, we should react with disgust at the installation of Bergoglio, the Marxist, as Pope Francis (no Francis there!) by forces of evil (specifically the Soros cartel). The ruin has spread so deep that perhaps now we can all join together, if need be outside the institutional structures, and revive the faith and its glory that brings grace to Man.
Yes the divergents must find each other, band together and create parallel structures. The fig tree has ceased to bear fruit and must be cursed.
Unless they change direction very soon, Europeans will live according to the precepts of the Koran amid the rubble of the great cities that used to be there.
A century from now “Christian” Europe will be Muslim Europe, and completely unrecognizable. The great cathedrals and universities will be rubble. The only thing that stops it would be nuclear annihilation, or the end of the world. The writing has been on the wall for some time now.
Formation / Transformation of the EU from a commerce relationship to a political one has caused significant damage to member states. Too numerous to list in this platform.
J D Vance was right when he pointed out at the Munich Security Conference this year that Europe is heading towards authoritarianism.
The latest developments concerning free speech are especially worrisome.
What possesses leadership of a Western nation (in Europe or in the US) to willingly encourage and assist in the importation of an enemy of its own civilization ? An enemy that their ancestors died fighting to keep from invading these same lands as in Europe. And in the US, imported and encouraged a variety of enemies that have been allowed into the country and an unknown extent of evil that they have brought with them. Some have speculated that this was done because of the sharp decline in birth rates, others have cited what is know as the Kalergi Plan. In either case, this is a purposeful invitation for ones own destruction so it remains a mystery to some extent. One near certainty is that Christianity, which is the foundational restraint Western humanity has prospered with, is the target because attacking this will rid the world of a powerful force against evil. And who would want to rid the world of Christians ? Satan, of course.
"People with power and wealth have often been lulled into believing that they are far more secure than they really are." Ah, yes, the illusion of the material world, the temporal and transitory, praised during forgetfulness of that which is eternal and holy. A story played over and over. The choice of T.S. Eliot as a guide through the ruined world is excellent. Thanks for this reflection.
Yes...Stephen Meyer and others covered the topic of "creationism" vs atheism...
I do not believe the subject is settled in anyway....Even Albert Einstein agreed!
- Stephen C. Meyer--Darwin's Doubt is another excellent book by Stephen Meyer. Stephen Meyer has clearly listened to the arguments of those who are sceptical about intelligent design and has addressed them thoroughly. It is really important that Darwinists read this book carefully and give a response.
You are saying that Meyer is a good source in supporting the valid points of intelligent design? (Not disagreeing. Just inquiring.) Has been some time since I kept up on the intelligent design movement, having previously found it an accurate argument, one that only needed further explanation.
Biochemist Michael Behe is excellent. He had no intention of entering into the conversation. But when he noticed that if for example one process was altered in a given cell where 100,000 processes were occurring simultaneously, the interconnections were so ingeniously interlocked that even one small change crashed the entire cell.
So he began to think about that.
The result was the book, Darwin's Black Box.
The book was named to the National Review's list of 100 most important books of the twentieth century.
George Gilder wrote that it “overthrows Darwin at the end of the twentieth century in the same way that quantum theory overthrew Newton at the beginning.”
Here is Behe speaking engagingly at the Institute of Catholic Culture.
https://michaelbehe.com/books/darwins-black-box/
Yes, I recall his work. He was a leader in the movement. With solid reasoning and breakthrough thought.
I think they have a website...not sure. I read the book several years ago and agreed with the basic premise. There are quite a few other interesting books of that genre by the same basic group of people "INTENTIONAL DESIGN" I think it is called.
I am not religious in the traditional sense. But when the complexity and intricacy of even the simplest life forms is examined...it does add a lot of weight to those who are "believers"...I think he wrote a book called "The Miracle of the Cell" or someone else in that camp did. Apparently that camp thinks there are huge and unfilled gaps between "inanimate matter" and the one celled organisms. And then even more further on down a long the line of "evolution" ....I tend to be more tending towards "intentional creation"....But there are so many surprises coming out...
If there is a God....it would be a smart move to have this question be open so that the issue of "faith" could be examined. Human beings are free to "believe" or not to, As either camp can be "intellectually proven correct"
I have a religion....Here it is:
"Treat other people like you wish to be treated.....and let go of anger"
Hard sometimes....super hard.
On the other hand countless millions have died/are dying in "religious" wars. Weird and bizarre in my book and is good argument AGAINST a "religion" in any form. .
Those dying in the name of religion are probably not fighting and dying for religion at all. Those ‘soldiers’ are promised handsomely by ‘the devil’ to cause death and destruction. I, neither, call myself RELIGIOUS in the standard meaning. But the overwhelming AWE that smart, questioning people stir in me is driving me to continually QUESTION how, why, when, what’s next, what’s before, how to proceed. I have to immerse myself in what it/they offer and do read and listen to everything I deem worthy. I say let’s ignore the ‘devil’ (especially his/it’s minions in characters like Klaus Schwab, the new King of England…..and on and on as the list is long!). Don’t respond to MSM. Be silent after free hearing the shrill voices of the ‘devil’. Turn and focus on love. Pay attention to those you love.
Religion has been shortchanged in the public discourse, perhaps because of uneducated clergy. It is much more than be nice, feel nice. Rather it speaks to the very nature of life, of the nature of humans/souls, and the nature of God. In a mature and valid religion, one has profound insights into the very nature of Reality. Basically, the secular view is that one is wholly a biological entity, a herd animal. The religious view is that one's essence is an immortal spiritual being, a soul that has continuity of consciousness beyond this mortal life. These are huge differences that have profound effects on how we conduct ourselves.
Probably glowing at night...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗥𝗡𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝘅 𝗶𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄...
https://t.co/O8krF0aqHy
Destroyed
I am reminded of Al-Andalus, the Iberian Penninsula, 711 AD - 1492... The islamic kingdoms. An apparently vibrant & multicultural civilisation, before Fundamentalism poisoned the well, where muslim, jew, christian co-habitated & art & science flourished... Followed by Felipe & Isabella and a very dull & cruel Catholicism, a bleak & black period of torture, burnings & torchings of strangers. The Inquistion.
Swings & Roudabouts. We descend into the barbarism of War Lords with AI & Bioweapons. (& cretins who seem unable to parse a meaningful sentence without ridiculous AI verbosity...,)
As a statement of my stubborn humanity I have disabled "spellchecker AND "hints" on "better" ways to write. AI can write a novel in the time I decide a word. Soon, it will TELL ("help") you what to write.
Wipe your own arse 👍
It seems that Europe's leaders are hell bent on it's destruction.
Christianity has been the basis and explanation of Western civilizations rise to world dominance since the conversion of Constantine. This has been especially so since the rise of protestantism. The moral failure of the Christian churches as they preached the boys into the trenches on both sides was the death knell of Christianity in the West. It has been in it's death throes ever since. Christianity has been replaced with materialism, hedonism, secularism, and existentialist-nihilism. As goes Christianity, so will go the West.