Al Peterson

2017-09-18 23:04:24 -0400

Christian Europe, like Christian America, is largely an anachronism. We as a society both European and American have turned our backs on Christianity and put secularism in its place. We have long since stopped making deposits into that account. We have for the last hundred years and, especially in the last 30 years, been making withdrawals from that spiritual account which is the foundation of our society.



Or to change the metaphor- we have removed the foundation but we continue to build the building and wonders why it totters like the Tower of Pisa. Years ago there was a book that foretold this called, Termites in the Shape of Men. The socialist termites have got their wish- they have removed God from the public sphere. Now a different and vindictive god is coming through the cracks in the foundation.



This societal position is not one that can filled by pretending as if, or acting as if, we believe the spiritual truths of our past. We must actually believe it- personally. There can be no state mandated spirituality to guide us back to truth. We must individually believe what scripture tells us. We must individually submit to God’s rule. It cannot be forced. It cannot happen by coercion or pressure. The whole is only as strong as the sum of its parts. Links in a chain. Biblically this usually happened only after prolonged personal pain as in the case of the Babylonian exile.



Unfortunately we are now spiritually bankrupt and, consequently, financially and morally bankrupt as well. So we turn to other sources of income. Islam is now what we are using to fill that account and using to draw from.



May God have mercy on our blinded minds.

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