This post was notable for its comments, featuring a vain attempt to legitimize a self-professed atheist as minister to a supposedly Christian church.
What do these people sing at worship services? Imagine? I have just made myself shudder.
But this is postmodernism: “your truth” and “my truth” and “his truth over there” all add up to no truth at all.
And that is where our popular culture has stopped and stalled.
When R.J. Rushdoony wrote this essay, thirty years ago or so, the Western intellectual mind (pardon the oxymoron) had not yet degenerated to “your truth, my truth, no truth.” But as he so often did, he saw exactly where it was heading and could tell you exactly where it came from.
https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/invisible-rulers
There’s a lot of meat to this essay, but stick with it–because it tells us how we got here and points us back to God.
Postmodern poop that rests on such philosophical gems as “I is reality” has no future.
Already by 1992, Michael Crichton warned us that the line between fact and fiction was getting rather blurry.
It’s been done on purpose, by wicked and ungodly people, many of whom are not quite sane. The poison brewed in our colleges and universities always seeps out into the rest of our society, tainting it, then maiming it.
“Educating” ourselves to death… but I guess it depends on what “is” is.
A reader asks, “How can we conform to Scripture that we all interpret in different ways?” And, “How do you know your Christianity is the right one among all others?” And when I replied that the Bible is the right Christianity, she said I’d dodged the issue.
Well, let me try again.
First, just because people insist on imposing their own emotions and opinions on it doesn’t mean that Scripture has no meaning. St. Peter: “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:20-21).
In other words, the Bible is delivered to us, by the Holy Ghost, as objective truth. No one has any business subjecting it to any private interpretation. An extreme example of that would be “Clergy for Choice,” blaspheming by their celebration of abortion as “doing God’s work.” Or those who perform same-sex parodies of marriage. Or bless adulterous unions. If any of those “interpretations” is anything but blatantly wrong, then words really have no meaning and we might as well give up trying to communicate with one another. Those “interpretations” flatly contradict the plain language of the Scriptures.
Second, I kind of lost patience with that turn of phrase, “your Christianity.” In our stupid colleges and universities we learn that there is no true truth, but only “your truth” and “my truth”–and whoever has the most power, their version of the truth prevails.
The Lord Our God did not intend for us to live that way. He is a Person who created us, who loves us, who made us in His image, yet by no means the same as Himself; who is all-wise, all-righteous: and He is our objective truth; He is the starting-point for all that we can ever know to be true. So if there is any “my Christianity,” that would be a form of self-worship. There is no yours or mine. We are here to seek God’s will, and to do it.
All right, we can’t. We do insist on bending, folding, spindling, and mutilating the absolute truth communicated to us by God. If we did not do that, we would not need a Savior: there would have been no reason for Jesus Christ, the Son of God, to come into this world in the flesh.
Now, just because we never arrive at 100% of the absolutely true meaning of the Scriptures does not mean that we always come away with nothing. Sanctification is not a wave of a magic wand. It is a process. It takes a lifetime. It is accomplished in stages by the Holy Spirit, and the sovereign will of God.
All powers on the earth are under God and will be held accountable to Him, and be judged by Him.
Those who are satisfied with their own bizarre and heretical “interpretations” of Scripture had best enjoy it while they can.
King David–a literary fiction?
If I had to single out one thing that has done more harm to our civilization than any other, that thing would be postmodernism–the addled doctrine that there are no facts, there is no truth, there are only “constructs.” And whoever can make his construct stick, by any means, gets to define reality.
Hatched in our colleges and looniversities, this has been turned loose on our politics and, worse, our entire culture. It’s the fountainhead of all this “we are whatever we say we are” business.
An outstanding example of this is the movement called “Biblical minimalism,” which claims that there never was a Kingdom of Israel, the writers of the Bible just made it up. The titles of the books, by academic nincompoops, tell you what you need to know. The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History by Keith Whitelam (1996), who alleges that the ancient kingdom of Israel was “invented by scholars.” The Mythic Past: Biblical Archeology and the Myth of Israel by Thomas Thompson (1999), who declares that “The entire notion of ‘Israel’ and its history is a literary fiction.”
What bunk. Were Sargon II and Sennacherib, kings of Assyria, aiding and abetting a modern anti-Palestinian conspiracy when they recorded their treaties and wars with Israel and Judah? How did they get roped in?
Postmodernists say we can never truly “know” anything, we only have whatever we can make up. It’s amazing that they get away with this. If nobody knows anything, then why should we listen to you–when you don’t know, either? As the toddler in a famous youtube video says, “It’s poop!”
So now your “gender” is whatever you say it is, on any given day, there is no objective right or wrong, there surely is no God, and blah-blah-blah. It’s poop.
We are Christians, some of us are Jews, and our God is not a man, that He should lie. We believe that there are not only material facts, but moral facts. We believe in truth, and much of what we know as truth, we know from the Bible, God’s Word.
In this we must persevere with all the strength that God can give us.
We don’t want to be found doing otherwise when Christ returns.
If we ever do go fully postmodern, and we want to get along, we must master the art of non-factuality. If nothing is true, we must rely on statements that sound true when spoken with a calm conviction. We also wish to convey non-information that will impress our hearers.
So here are a few that you can practice on. See if you can wow people you meet on the supermarket checkout line!
*The Welsh people originally came from China in the 1940s. Prior to that, Wales was inhabited by movie stars.
*The game of polo was invented by Thomas Edison–not by Tesla, as is erroneously believed. In Tesla’s game, players rode on hogs, not horses.
*The fad of indoor fireworks was responsible for the Great Chicago Fire of 1506.
*The original, classical Greek alphabet had only five letters in it, all of them vowels. Consonants were only added after the Romans complained.
*The earliest living things on Planet Earth were rocks, although they didn’t look it.
There you have it, just what you need to get started. Remember, Saving The Planet depends on making twaddle sound like wisdom.
If our country ever collapses into chaos and we lose our precious freedoms, our colleges and universities will be largely to blame for it.
The vice provost of New York University, one Ulrich Baer, has declared that trampling on free speech “ensures the conditions of free speech” (https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2017/04/30/nyu-administrator-goes-full-orwell-violating-free-speech-ensures-the-conditions-of-free-speech/#4f6ac8243718 ). Put that in your postmodern pipe and smoke it. It’ll make you as loopy as he is.
It’s simply “undebateable,” says this Stalinist wannabe, that we must kill our First Amendment to protect the fragile feelings of “minorities,” who must be rigidly shielded from ever hearing anything they don’t want to hear. It’s necessary to silence some of the people–us, he means–for the good of “a greater group of people.” This is what has been learned, he prates, by studying postmodernism and other forms of fractured logic.
He goes on to praise the Soros-funded thugs of Black Lives Matter, and other violent “protesters,” for “keeping watch over the soul of our republic.”
Don’t even ask for his definition of a “republic.” It’s bound to make no sense. For that matter, I’m not sure I want to find out what he means by “soul.”
So how about it, America? Are you ready now to stop pouring money into these institutions of “higher learning”? Or isn’t the pot boiling hot enough for you yet?
Wow, what a plot! I mean, is this a book or is this a book? And what kind of question is that?
In The Evolving Door by Melinda James Schlubb, Gunto and Petunia are transgendered partners who, in the course of investigating their past lives in which they were frogs, fish, and millipedes, accidentally discover the secrets of Evolution, providing total and irrevocable proof that no one would ever dare to question.
But it’s not so safe to discover the secret of Evolution! Immediately after their discovery, an Amish hit squad begins to hunt them down. Haters and biggits torture them by using the wrong pronouns: these are harrowing scenes of hurt feelings and microaggression, surely not for the faint-hearted.
Will Gunto and Petunia succeed in arriving at the Safe Space, that is, the nearest college campus? Having changed their respective genders once already, can they find the courage to do it again–and yet again? Or will the Mennonite assassins finally catch up to them?
One of the great things about this book is how author M.J. Schlubb boldly breaks free of all those tired old conventions of grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and vocabulary: there is, indeed, a 28-page chapter that is all one sentence. She or he puts quotation marks wherever she or he feels like it, and paragraphs are always up for grabs. Oh, it’s sooo postmodern! Or can you say illiterate?
Published by Bankrupt Press, The Evolving Door sells for $344.99, hardcover, and is available from your local drug dealer.
Ha, ha, that big dop is out Chrismis shoppin so now i got his blog.
Hay, Im thinkin of changing my majer becose Gender Studies its so hard, i been at it 5 yeares now and stil tryin to get my Batchler’s Degre. And then i here abuot the Universtity going to start a whole new Departmint of Zomby Studies! My prefesser he sayed we got the idea from Kent state ( http://leeduigon.com/2015/12/16/prof-seeks-funds-for-zombie-study. ).
Wuld yiu beleave it, som stopid Repulbican stodent sayed “But there no sech thing as a zomby”!! So thare istnt no point to studdy it! So now he got to go to Sensativty Traning or else git kicked out of scoohl.
Anyhow my prefesser he sayed it dont matter becose Realty is onely a Socail Construck, witch meens that zombees is reel if they is reel to yuo! He sayed we All Post moderns now and yiu cant be a interllectural if you not Post Modem. So thare istnt no reel Realty but onely whateffer yiu think is reel! Exept you not aloud to think stuf like Homo phobia or Climbit Change Denyal, that not reel at al even if yiu think it reel.
So may be I change my majer, or may be even get two degres, one for Gender Studies and one for Zomby Studies, boy wuuild I be smart then!!
P.S.–I stil got to ware a hat al the time becose of my moth antenners that growed on my heade wen they shot me ful of moth Hormoanes, and i stil has not go female cromasoames so I gess the exspearmint istnt goin to work affter al. But it aint al bad havin moth Hormoanes, i had som body’s necktie for lunch to day and it was delishace!