Is the West worth saving?
Pat Buchanan has a write up over at WND that is an almost fatalistic approach to the culture war that aggravates many American Christians. Two quotes from the article:
What if the free society chooses to become a decadent and depraved society? Do we still owe it allegiance and loyalty? Does a community have the right to impose its values, if those values are rooted in religion, on a minority that disbelieves in those values? We certainly did that during the civil rights era of the 1960s...
...''What makes you think the West is worth saving?'' the priest asked Whittaker Chambers when he visited him in that hospital room in the 1950s. Good question then. Better question now.
Good points in the article and some serious food for thought. Stay inside the matrix or take the little blue (was it the blue one?) pill... Up to you, Neo. But one has to wonder, how the separatist feeling I got while reading Buchanan's piece jives with "Be in the world but not of the world". And what is a realistic proposal for those of us who agree with the general premise that the nation's "soul" has been sold for a veritable mess of pottage? What are devoted Christians to do in these times when our values are becoming increasingly unpopular and institutionally obselete?
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Be like Jesus, instead of be like the church. Reach people one at a time. Sounds corny, sounds like Chritianese but it's true. This is how he did it. Unless you got enough fish and bread to feed 5000 at a time?
The Christian church in America, it's sad to say has made itself irrelevant in so many ways. It's afraid of offending people, it's afraid of asserting those things which people know to be right and it's too lazy to nurture it's own relationship with God. It's so busy navel gazing and coming up with programs for the faithful that it fails to reach out to those who would never darken the door of a church.
I know what you are thinking tell us how you really feel EB.
Comment by elmers brother— 2006/06/03 @ 09:55 PM — (Reply)
Well said, EB.
Comment by Michael— 2006/06/05 @ 07:41 AM — (Reply)
Michael I am one of them. I got three fingers pointing back at me.
Comment by elmers brother— 2006/06/05 @ 11:31 AM — (Reply)