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Whatever Happened to Western Civilization?
By Jay Rogers
Published March 1, 1992
Western culture has got to go!"
- Students at Stanford University led by the Reverend Jesse Jackson (Presumably, meaning "it" and not the course.)
Western Civilization is under attack. In university classrooms all over America, once revered figures such as Christopher Columbus, William Shakespeare, John Milton and George Washington are now being castigated as "dead white males." The glib chant of Stanford students quoted above has become expressive of a swelling surge of protest which appeared on campuses in the late 1960s and has continued unabated to this day.
The great contempt in which the ideals and values of Western culture are held, was brought to light a few years ago at a time when Stanford required its students to take a course entitled "Western Culture." Students were required to read at least fourteen works which had defined and shaped Western civilization. The survey began with Aristotle and traced the history of great western philosophers to the present day. The course was attacked by radical students and faculty, because – after all – Aristotle and his compatriots were all dead, white males. And worse – it is imperialistic to think of Western culture as being unique or special.
Other Ivy League schools soon joined in the fray. Of course, the fight over the literary canon is more than just a battle over ideology; it a political debate. It involves a rejection of Western culture's traditional values and its authoritative works. Today the crusade against the ideology taught in Western civilization courses has become an almost universal part of academic politics. The merits of these courses have come to stand for the merits of Western civilization as a whole.
The campaign against Western culture – sometimes called multiculturalism – is not simply a call for equal time for other cultures that make up the world. Clearly this would be a noble cause. Yet more often than not the champions of multiculturalism promote an accompanying disdain for the values and beliefs that have sustained Western culture. Nobody knows for sure exactly what these people are so angry about. And even more baffling to the casual observer, there seems to be no certain agenda for reform except a destructive nihilism.
But let us propose that behind the diatribe against Western culture is an attack on the religious faith that has characterized the West. Indeed the basic theme of multiculturalism is as much anti-Christian as anti-Western. At the root of the attack on Western civilization in America is a more subtle attempt to discredit Christianity. This campaign is cleverly conceived; the tactics are usually carried out in history and literature courses.
The first step is to bring all the worst aspects of Western society into the forefront of the student's mind. Popular doctrines of late 19th century America are discussed: the idea that "might makes right," the concepts of Manifest Destiny, male dominance and white supremacy. The student is led to believe that unjust wars, imperialism, the exploitation of the Third World, the build-up of the military industrial complex, and the destruction of the rain forests are all somehow the result of a pervading insensitivity glorified in the novels of white American males.
The next phase in the plan is to equate Christianity with Western culture. By the convenience of being born American, many of the authors in question can also be presented as Christian. For instance, Herman Melville, a transcendentalist, is often presented as being a Christian simply because he uses biblical symbolism in his novels.
The next step is to introduce authors of femininity, color and Eastern religion (or merely anti-Christian philosophy) who exemplify the opposite philosophy in each vilified genre. The student is left believing that since Christianity and Western culture are inseparable, Christian ideology is also unacceptable.
In order to prove that a subtle attack on Christianity exists in modern educational systems, we need to trace the history of Western civilization back to the time of the first few centuries A.D., to a time when Christianity was part of eastern culture and the Greco-Roman worldview exemplified the West.
The study of the historical development of civilization and culture is a study of worldview. Worldview is defined as the basic presuppositions of a people in a given society; how they look at life; and the basic truths which form their values and beliefs. When we look at any civilization or culture, it is as though we are looking at a vast tapestry made up of many intertwining threads. The picture formed by this tapestry symbolizes the worldview of that civilization's culture. As each strand in the tapestry of Western civilization is disentangled before our eyes, we can see which threads originally belonged to the pagan worldview and which belonged to the Christian worldview.
The Judeo-Christian Worldview
The most important thread that defines our Western culture and has given it permanence is religious in nature. But it was more than religion that shaped the worldview of Christians during the first few centuries. There were many religions that vied for the attention of the peoples of the Roman Empire. A vast array of mixtures, philosophies and syncretism characterized the world into which Christianity emerged. The Western world of the first century A.D. was hungry for religion; yet the classical religions of Greece and Rome had little to offer. Instead many people turned to eastern mysticism and philosophy.
The Christian worldview rested on the belief in an infinite and personal God Who had spoken through the prophets of the Jews and had revealed Himself in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The early Christians had knowledge about God and the universe that rested with revelation and not speculation. They had absolute, universal values by which to live and by which to judge their society. Above all they had value for the basic dignity of the individual based on the belief that each man is unique and created in the image of God.
This worldview collided with force into the basic values and beliefs of the Greco-Roman system. At different intervals in the first three centuries, under ten different Roman emperors, Christians were persecuted and put to death by the Roman government. At one point, Christians were accused of atheism (because they did not worship Caesar); cannibalism (because they "ate the Lord's Body"); and incest (because of "brotherly love"). The Christian apologist, Justin Martyr (100-167 A.D.), offered a defense in a letter to these charges written to the Roman Emperor Antonius Pius.
According to his own account, Dialogue with Trypho, Justin describes how he had studied one after the other of the philosophical systems – Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism – and then came to Christianity. One day as he stood near the Aegean Sea just outside the city of Ephesus, an old man approached him.
"Does philosophy produce happiness?" asked the old man.
Absolutely," Justin replied, "and it alone."
In an extended conversation the old man suggested to Justin that there were many questions that Plato could not answer, but there is a true philosophy with an explanation for all questions. That philosophy is Christianity. The old man instructed Justin in the teachings of the Hebrew prophets and Jesus Christ. He encouraged Justin to seek God for the opening of his understanding: "For no one can perceive or understand these truths unless he has been enlightened by God and Christ."
Justin then describes his response: "When he had said these and many other things which it is not now fitting time to tell, he went his way, after admonishing me to meditate on what he had told me, and I never saw him again. But my spirit was immediately set on fire, and affection for the prophets, and for those who are friends of Christ, took hold of me; while pondering on his words, I discovered that his was the only sure and useful philosophy. Thus it is said that I am now a true philosopher."1
The charge that Christians were atheists was easily refuted by Justin; he did not shrink back from using Platonic dialogue and Aristotelian logic in his defense of the Christian faith, nor did he exclude his knowledge of the Greek myths and philosophies in explaining the reasonableness of Christianity to the Roman Emperor. He did so in order to make contact with the needs and interests of his age. In the end, Justin was not successful in promoting tolerance for the Christian faith among the Roman rulers; he became a martyr in 167 A.D.
The sporadic persecutions of the Christians which occurred under the Roman Emperors did not occur simply because the Christians worshiped Jesus Christ. There were many gods in the Roman world. The reason that Christians were killed was that they refused to also enter into the unity of the Roman state by worshiping Caesar. Christians worshiped Jesus as God; they worshiped the infinite-personal God only. They allowed no mixture; all other gods were seen as false gods.
"No totalitarian system nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had that absolute in God's revelation. Because the Christians had an absolute, universal standard by which to judge not only personal morals but the state, they were counted as enemies of totalitarian Rome and were thrown to the beasts."2
But an assimilation of Greek and Roman philosophical ideas was not viewed as a compromise of faith by all Christians. The Apostle Paul cited Greek authors when it was to his advantage. At other times he used the knowledge he had gained as a Jewish Rabbi. The early Christians understood that Divine Reason, or LOGOS, had been revealed in part to both the Jew and the Gentile. The Jews had received God's revelation through the prophets, and the Gentiles had received some enlightenment through natural reasoning and the imprint of God's design in nature.
Thus Plato and Aristotle could not be dismissed as worthless pagans. Not every idea from Greek philosophy was of God, however, and the early Christians trusted that the Holy Spirit would guide them in discerning the true from the false. They had two witnesses to Truth: the Holy Spirit residing within them and the Scriptural writings of the Prophets and the Apostles. If a pagan idea did not line up with the Word of God, it was deemed false, but whatever did agree with the Scriptures was accepted as a fragment of divine truth revealed to the Gentiles.
The early Christians did not hesitate to use this concept in spreading the Gospel: All Truth is God's Truth, no matter where it may be found. However, we will see that only a vibrant, robust Christian faith could make this distinction. In later centuries, pagan thought forms that were unbiblical and false began to slip into the worldview of Christians who depended less and less on the Bible and more and more on the authority of church pronouncements.
The Greco-Roman Worldview
Roman civilization is the direct ancestor of the modern Western world. Combined with the Greek influence, Roman law and political ideas have had a strong influence on the West.
The Roman system was an empire built on conquest with incorporation, but without representation. The secret of Rome's strength lay in the fact that she incorporated vanquished nations into her own political body. Never before had so many people been brought under one government without making slaves of most of them.
Liberty had existed before in the barbaric tribes of Northern Europe and in Greek cities. Union had existed before in the despotism of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and China. Now liberty and union were for the first time joined together. The whole Mediterranean world was brought under one government; many people of absorbed nations became Roman citizens and enjoyed the protection of Roman laws. Gradually the Roman Empire became permeated with the philosophy of the Greeks and the religion of the Jews and Christians. Human life was raised to a higher plane. The Greek notion of a democracy was almost realized.
But the Roman system had its fatal flaws. Its essential vice was a lack of representation; Rome's only notion of delegated power was that of authority delegated by the government to generals and prefects who ruled the absorbed nations from a distance. The Roman Empire was unable to avoid the weakening of local governments and the spirit of personal independence. Gradually liberty was lost; and the union prevailed. The central government was strengthened and the individual gradually lost his sense of nationalism and patriotism. The lack of locally elected representatives gradually led to despotism.3
"As the empire ground down, the decadent Romans were given to a thirst for violence and a gratification of the senses. This is especially evident in their rampant sexuality…. One easily observed example of the decadence of officially sponsored art is that the fourth-century work on the Arch of Constantine in Rome stands in poor contrast to its second century sculptures which were borrowed from monuments from the period of Emperor Trajan. The sponsored art was decadent, and music was increasingly bombastic. Even the portraits on the coins became of poor quality. All of life was marked by the predominant apathy.
"As the Roman economy slumped lower and lower, burdened with an aggravated inflation and a costly government, authoritarianism increased to counter the apathy. Since work was no longer done voluntarily, it was brought increasingly under the authority of the state, and freedoms were lost. For example, laws were passed binding small farmers to their land. So, because of the general apathy and its results, and because of oppressive control, few thought the old civilization worth saving.
"Rome did not fall because of external forces such as the invasion by the barbarians. Rome had no sufficient inward base; the barbarians only completed the breakdown – and Rome gradually became a ruin."4
Pouring through the passes of the northern mountains, hordes of barbarians covered the fertile plains of the Italian peninsula. In the fourth century, the Vandals, the Visigoths, and other Germanic tribes, descended in periodic raids devouring the countryside, consuming crops, slaughtering livestock, burning homes and villages, and massacring the inhabitants of Rome.
When the invading German barbarians sacked Rome they also took with them the vestiges of Christianity in the form of art, literature, and a few holy men who invaded the Germanic culture with what we now know as "civilization." Through simple, passive resistance Christianity overcame the Roman Empire. By outlasting the persecutions of the Roman emperors, the Christians laid the lasting foundation of Western society, not only by becoming the predominant faith, but also by preserving many valuable features of Greco-Roman culture.
Thanks to the Monks, the Bible was preserved – along with sections of Greek and Latin classics. The old music, too, was sometimes kept alive by constant repetition. Some of the music came from Ambrose, who had been bishop of Milan from 374 to 397 and who had introduced to his people antiphonal psalmody and the singing of hymns.
When Rome fell to the invading Germanic tribes the culture of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire was separated from that of the Western Empire. The first great dividing line in history is the end of the Ancient era and the beginning of the Medieval era. This dividing line is commonly associated with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. (Although some historians consider the Medieval era to commence with the death of King Charlemagne, another important figure in Western civilization.)
The most influential philosophy at this time was contained in the revamped teachings of Plato, dubbed neo-Platonism. Alfred North Whitehead has remarked that the entire history of European philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato.5 Indeed, Plato understood something crucial about society: if there are no absolutes, then the individual things (the particulars) have no meaning. The absolute is that which gives unity and meaning to our world.
As a Christian philosophy, this teaching came about primarily through the writings of Saint Augustine, a fifth century Christian philosopher, and Ambrose of Milan (339-397). These two great leaders emphasized a true biblical Christianity. Yet in later centuries, the increasing reliance on Greek thought instead of Scripture led to a distortion away from biblical teaching.
Coupled with the breakdown of Roman order came a time of turmoil, frequent wars, and intellectual discontinuity in the advance of learning. Yet through the turmoil, Christianity in even a diluted form, extended a tremendous civilizing influence on the northern tribes of Europe through extending the Christianized art forms; medieval economic teaching which exalted the virtue of honest, well-executed work; an impressive network of church hospitals and charitable institutions; and impressive architecture.
The Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire made popular what was known as "Christendom" to the pagan tribes of Northern Europe. King Charlemagne was probably the furthest thing from a "Christian" in terms of the biblical definition. He was a formidable man with colossal energy. He was also a great warrior and constantly on the campaign. By using primarily the Roman method of nation making in his conquest of the northern tribes, Charlemagne forced the inhabitants of Europe into Christian baptism (much in the same way as Roman Emperor worship was enforced a few centuries earlier) through bishops and prelates through whom Charlemagne delegated government.
Thus Charlemagne laid the foundations for feudal society. He preserved Christianity in form, but denied the free will experience of accepting Christ to the common people. The medieval institution of Christendom was introduced at this period. Europe was regarded as Christ's kingdom. Baptism was not primarily a spiritual experience, but became socially and politically significant since it denoted entrance into society. The medieval church began to stray far from the ideals laid down by the Apostles and preserved by the early church Fathers. Yet it is the medieval model of Christianity that is presented to those studying Western Civilization courses on America's university campuses.
The Holy Roman Empire of the Middle Ages was a hodgepodge of Greek, Roman, German and, yes, Christian virtues made into a feudal society. The result was a government and society structure that more resembled the Western Roman/pagan worldview than the Jewish heritage from which Christianity sprang. In fact, primitive Christianity was not Western at all, but shared the Oriental influences of the Jewish culture. Some elements of Greek culture, such as the arts, philosophy and government, were not discarded in the Medieval age.
The Bible teaches that all of man's institutions are given by God. The Christian worldview merely infuses the principles of God's Word and the spiritual life of Christ's Kingdom into each institution thereby bringing greater life and more harmonious order to society. It was beneficial for Christians of the early Middle Ages to adopt the art, philosophy and government of the ancient period. Some elements of that culture were deemed as "good" and therefore pleasing to God and were retained by the early Christians.
Art and architecture, for instance, are neutral forms with regard to the Judeo-Christian idea of good and evil. Yet the art of the Middle Ages portrays the increasing drift from biblical teaching. Michael Gough in The Origins of Christian Art writes of the change from "the acceptance of an element of naturalistic realism to a preference for the fantastic and unreal…. The last vestiges of realism were abandoned."6
"Byzantine art became characterized by formalized, stylized mosaics and icons. In one way there was something good here – in that the artists made their art a witness [for Christ] to the observer. Many of those who made these did so with devotion, and they were looking for more spiritual values. These were pluses. The minuses were that in the portrayal of their concept of spirituality they set aside nature and the importance of the humanity of people."7
The Romanesque and Gothic architecture of this period was one of the greatest developments. The first great medieval style – the eleventh century Romanesque – looked back to Roman styles. The distinguishing marks of churches built during this period were the rounded arch, thick walls and dim interiors. The Gothic style first appeared in 1140 exemplifying great artistic and structural advances. The pointed arches, the flying buttress and many large, high windows which allowed light from above to stream into the cathedral are beautiful architectural accomplishments.
The architecture of the Middle Ages also expressed the change in the prominence of biblical teaching in the Church. "During the change from the Romanesque to the Gothic, Mariology began too grow in the church. The Romanesque churches were not dedicated to the Virgin, but the Gothic churches of France were overwhelmingly dedicated to her. The birth pangs of the Middle Ages were characterized by an awakened intellectual life and an awakened piety. Yet at the same time the church continued to move away from the reaching of early Christianity as distortions of biblical doctrine increased."8
During the whole period of the Middle Ages proper (from about 500 to 1500) the pendulum swung back and forth between an attempt to reform both church and society and a retreat back into the darkness which characterized the spiritual leadership of most of the Catholic church at that time.
In the 12th century, Thomas a Beckett, no enemy to Catholicism or the church hierarchy, once told a pope to his face that the people thought that the Roman Church, which is the Mother of all Churches, behaves more like a stepmother than a mother. The Scribes and Pharisees sit there placing on men's shoulders burdens too heavy to be borne. They load themselves with fine clothes and their tables with precious plate; a poor man can seldom gain admittance."
The Conciliar Movement stood for a revival of the idea that the real authority in the church is vested not in one bishop, the pope, but in all the bishops together in a council. The Council of Constance was successful in deposing three rival popes, ending a scandalous era in the Catholic Church. The council declared that all men were directly subject to Christ, and not men, in matters of religious faith. The Councilar Movement failed, however, and the principle of monarchy rather than representation triumphed within the Roman church.
The Modern Era
The Age of Exploration, the Renaissance and the Reformation commenced the Modern era. These three revolutions occurred in Europe at about the same time. Each one of these events was fueled by biblical prophecy and signaled the advancement of Europe in three spheres of human achievement: art, politics and religion. This great step out of the Middle Ages brought the end of a political order which had dominated Europe for a thousand years.
The turning point in Christian worldview came at the time of the Reformation when Northern European Christians rediscovered the Bible. The Protestant Reformation was an attempt by the common people of Northern Europe to reclaim the experience of New Testament Christianity, both in their secular and religious lives. Many of the "Christian" structures of Europe, they found to be from either neo-Platonic, Greek, Roman or pagan origin rather than from the biblical structures of early Christianity. Many of the cultural advantages that the Northern Europeans had over the Greco-Roman culture during the time of the Reformation was that many of the features of their society were actually closer to being "Christian" than those promoted by the Holy Roman Empire.
For instance, the pagan-German moot, or town meeting, became the basis for American democracy when some of the separatist Puritans adopted it as an alternative to Episcopalian church government. Later, they adopted this structure to civil government when they came to settle Massachusetts. The town meeting was closer to the Saxon culture than the monarchy espoused by the Latinate nobles. Both structures are pagan in origin, however, representative government is endorsed in the Bible, while the monarchy is not. Much of the government that "Christian" Europe has endorsed over the centuries is actually what Jesus called "Gentile rule" and is to be condemned as demonic in origin.
The Germanic method of nation making differs from the Oriental and Roman methods which have already been discussed. The single feature of representation gives it profound significance. The other two methods of nation making require war and conquest in order to be put into operation. The German method (used by the English, and all the Teutonic tribes of northern Europe) does not necessarily require war and conquest. Wherever representational government is established, it is possible for a great nation to be formed by the peaceful union of neighboring states into a federal body. Federalism is by nature a peaceful form of government and nation making. Conquest in the Oriental and Roman sense is incompatible with it.
Federalism as a form of government was first practiced by the ancient Hebrews; the Bible records that the tribes of Israel existed in peaceful union with each other as one nation. In the beginning, they were governed by elders elected from each tribe. Then the early Christian Church took this practice from the Hebrew Scriptures. The churches instituted by the Apostles were local institutions only. Each local church was complete in itself and was related to the other churches as a portion the Universal Church. It wasn't until the Medieval Era when the Christian church at Rome began to embrace neo-Platonic philosophy, that the Roman model of civil government replaced the New Testament model of church government in the affairs of the Church.
American Culture
The foundational proposal of this article has been that Greco-Roman culture and Judeo-Christian culture are two distinct entities and must be properly discerned before any meaningful dialogue on Western civilization can occur.
American culture has been colored by the thread of the Protestant Reformation. This Christian worldview emphasized the return to a more biblical model of church government, yet also had its influence on almost every sphere of life. America is indebted to the rise of Western civilization after the Renaissance. The benefits of science, technology, medicine, art, music, constitutional government, democracy, the jury system, free enterprise, literacy, productivity, the concept of progress, the high standard of living, the raised status of women, and racial equality all had their roots in the Renaissance and the Reformation.
However, it is important to remember that the first Americans were Europeans who left the Old World during a time when the Reformation was still very much in progress. Some of the old ideas had not been completely evaluated and reformed.
American society has progressed at a more accelerated rate than any culture in history. The source of all positive progress can be traced to the Christian ideals that were brought here from Europe in the 17th century. Yet not all American ideals are uniquely Christian.
Every important issue from women's rights, to racism, morality, the arts, government, etc. can be explored from this viewpoint. Any reform movement that has done our society any good in this century has its roots in the Christian reform movements of 19th century America. No reform movement will continue to be effective unless it conforms to biblical principles.
The Drive Toward Multiculturalism
It has become the policy of much of American academia to discard all that is uniquely "Western" in favor of a worldview which elevates every other culture to a higher status. It is an obvious fact that new freedoms are emerging in the world and other cultures are fast becoming as important to the West as the Greco-Roman influence was 500 years ago.
The essential misunderstanding here is that these other cultures have elevated themselves without Christian influence. Even in the Soviet Union, prior to the break up into a Commonwealth of Independent States, dissident writers recognized that it was Christianity that held the answers for the reconstruction of their sick society. During the years of communist stagnation, one anonymously published dissident wrote:
"Mysteriously and unsuspected by the busy multitudes, Christian consciousness, once almost defunct, is stealing back. It is as if a door had opened while nobody was looking. Why is this rebirth taking place in our country, where Christianity is attacked particularly systematically and with great brutality, while the rest of the world suffers a decline of faith and religious feeling? Backsliding and denials notwithstanding, we live in a Christian culture in a Christian age, and it is Christianity that is the fermenting agent, the 'yeast of the world,' causing history to rise like dough in a trough, not only in the past but in the future as well. We are profoundly convinced that Christianity alone possesses enough motive force gradually to inspire and transform our world."9
In view of the admission of the largest communist state in the world that the atheistic philosophy is bankrupt, should leftist academicians in our own country follow suit? It is a fact that half of Africa has become Christian in the last 50 years. As much as ten percent of Communist Asia is Christian. Latin America is currently undergoing a Christian "Reformation" of its own. Million of new evangelical believers are appearing every year in the formerly monolithically Catholic nations of South America.
At some point, the idea that Christianity should be relegated to the realm of religion (and is therefore irrelevant to the pursuit of knowledge) and has nothing to do with the progress of world cultures is going to be confronted by even the most irreligious of thinkers. When the humanist/materialist worldview is openly admitted to be false, we are going to see a revolution in the entire American university system.
The important fact to remember is that Western culture is a mixture of Christian and pagan worldviews. Once this concept has been grasped, it becomes easy to reconcile some of the atrocities committed by so-called "Christian" leaders with a respect for Western culture in general. It becomes clear where the faults with literary figures lie; and the defrocking of every major literary and historical figure becomes unnecessary. The fact that most of the "dead, white, male" authors in question were actually devoutly pagan in their worldview, does not undermine their positive contributions to our culture.
A Christian Era in World History
We are at a very significant juncture of world history. When historians look back at 1989, 1990, and 1991, the last few years will be considered watershed marks in the progress of human history. Just as the year 476 A.D. marked the end of the ancient age with the fall of the Western Roman Empire; and the year 1500 marked the end of the medieval age with the beginning of the Age of Exploration and the Reformation; so 1989 will mark the end of the Modern Age with the downfall of communism and the beginning of Islam's slide into turmoil.
We have now entered what some have called the Post-Modern Age. What part will you play in it? The direction of change in much of the Western world today involves the rejection of the philosophy of Marxism and it twin worldview: materialistic humanism. Instead many post-Marxist countries will be moving toward a Christian based reform movement. Every feature of many societies – East, West, and Third World – will be marked by a revival in interest in the New Testament and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Surely, the whole concept of progress is an arrogant idea unless Jesus Christ is at the source of all blessings.
The next era in human history may rightly be called the Christian era. The ideas and philosophies of Jesus Christ will reign in the hearts and minds of many people. Biblical prophecy indicates that a large portion of the earth will be converted to Christianity and the gospel will flourish in all the world's societies.
What type of person will be used in during this time to reform the nations? These reformers will look to Jesus Christ as Lord and God. They will express the great love of Christ to all people. Their actions, thoughts and intentions will express nothing but pure love and holiness. They will have a deep understanding of the Bible. They will be able to use biblical principles to discern the good and evil aspects of human life. They will use these principles to reform the nations without following the errors of religious political leaders of past centuries.
Many of these people will be young. People will be amazed at their wisdom and maturity. There will be an emphasis on equality in race and gender among the leaders of this movement. The university campuses of the world will become the centers for training powerful reformation leaders. They will volunteer freely to serve God. Without prior qualifications, many people will make themselves available and they will be suddenly thrust into positions of great authority and power.
If you are willing, you may be used of God to herald a revolution in world history. Jesus Christ is looking for volunteers today; men and women who desire to express his heart and character. Western civilization will be changed; Christianity will be restored to its original power and the world will never be the same.
"The Lord will stretch forth Thy scepter from Zion,
'Rule in the midst of Thine enemies.'
Thy people will volunteer freely
in the day of Thy power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Thy youth are to Thee as dew."
- Psalm 110:2,3
1 L. Russ Bush, Classical Readings in Christian Apologetics (The Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1983) pp.1,2.
2 Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live? (Crossway Books, Westchester, Illinois, 1976) p.26.
3 Quoted from John Fiske's "The Beginnings of New England in Verna Hall's, The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States of America (The Foundation for American Christian Education, Anaheim, CA, 1966) pp.12,13. 4 Schaeffer, pp.26,29.
5 Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: MacMillan, 1926).
6 Michael Gough, The Origins of Christian Art (New York: Praeger, 1973).
7 Schaeffer, p. 31.
8 Ibid, p. 46-48.
9 A.B. "The Direction of Change," From Under the Rubble (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1974) p.146-147.
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Your comments are welcome!
Well done, sir.
Your defense of Christianity is particulary excellent, although highly American (anti-"monarchical") in outlook. Specifically your non-episcopal view is stated when you blithely declare "Both structures are pagan in origin, however, representative government is endorsed in the Bible, while the monarchy is not. Much of the government that "Christian" Europe has endorsed over the centuries is actually what Jesus called 'Gentile rule' and is to be condemned as demonic in origin."
Yet the reverse is clearly shown in the Bible when Peter becomes the clearly dominant disciple throughout the Acts of the Disciples. Peter's leading position (when he speaks up, everyone else shuts up) establishes the primacy of a leading bishop who is counseled (and corrected) by a council/counselers (such as Paul and James). This is Jesus own church structure and thusly neither pagan nor demonic.
While you correctly cite some of the flaws of this centralized (but highly abusable) form of Church government, the validity of centralized leadership is demonstrated in its continuation of strong Biblical teaching on the sancitity of life and marriage, undiminished definition of sin, preservation of deep theology, and HIGHLY-demanding clerical standards. By comparison, the non-hierarchical style of church leadership have given us "theology by consensus" with tolerance of abortion, easy divorce, moral-relativism, and feel-good theology.
I observe this because I come from a Catholic and Baptist background with a substantial Lutheran education. I'm also an immersion-baptised, ordained Baptist deacon and approved to teach church Bible studies with the confidence of our church leadership because they have found my fundamentalist approach to be completely acceptable.
And I'm Catholic…and everyone knows it.
The latter is possible because I know the Catholic faith (well enough to understand the reasons for its liturgy and theology) and I explain the theology in terms a modern American Baptist understands. (Obviously Scott Hahn is one of my strong influences!)
In my personal life I seek understanding and unity of the Body of Christ by explaining Baptistism to Catholics, Catholicism to Baptists…and Luthernism, Presbyterianism, etc to everyone! Yet while I seek ecumenical understanding, it is my Catholic understanding (and leadership) which permits me to hold strong against the temptations of easy, fudgeable feel-good beliefs and relaxed standards which I have watched permeate our Protestant denominations over the last forty-plus years.
My brother in Christ, I encourage you to look for the reasons God has preserved the older orthodox denominations into modern times. I think you will find that, even as the 16th Century Protestant Reformation brought Catholicism back to its Biblically-defined core, the Catholic/Eastern Orthodox Churches may bring Protestant denominations back to their historical and non-relative Sacramental core.
After all, iron sharpens iron.
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Is there a connection between pagan religion and the abortion industry?
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Conceived as a sequel and update to the 1988 classic, The Massacre of Innocence, the new title, The Abortion Matrix, is entirely fitting. It not only references abortion's specific target – the sacred matrix where human beings are formed in the womb in the very image of God, but it also implies the existence of a conspiracy, a matrix of seemingly disparate forces that are driving this holocaust.
The occult activity surrounding the abortion industry is exposed with numerous examples. But are these just aberrations, bizarre yet anomalous examples of abortionists who just happen to have ties to modern day witchcraft? Or is this representative of something deeper, more sinister and even endemic to the entire abortion movement?
As the allusion to the film of over a decade ago suggests, the viewer may learn that things are not always as they appear to be. The Abortion Matrix reveals the reality of child-killing and strikes the proper moral chord to move hearts to fulfill the biblical responsibility to rescue those unjustly sentenced to death and to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves (Proverbs 24:11,12; 31:8,9).
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Broadband Ain't Broke… And Title II Surely Won't Fix It
As with most heated debates, the current net neutrality kerfuffle has been heavy on rhetoric and light on facts.
Sure, those of us who believe the Internet has thrived — and will continue to thrive — without the heavy mitts of regulation point to study after study after article (most recently from the Progressive Policy Institute, of all places) warning that Title II reclassification would do much more harm than good for the open Internet, but facts and research aren't nearly as effective as facetious cries about a "two-tiered Internet!" and "They are coming for your Netflix!"
That being said, since I'm a glutton for punishment I'm going to highlight yet another article, this one penned by economist (and IIA friend) Bret Swanson for the Wall Street Journal.
Swanson's piece has a blunt title — "The U.S. Leads the World in Broadband" — and rather than shouting about the Internet sky falling, he crunches some numbers to show that… well, just what the title says.
From his piece (which is behind a paywall):
Mr. Obama recently called on the FCC to impose "the strongest possible rules" on Internet service providers to make sure they don't "limit your access to a website" or "decide which online stores you should shop at or which streaming services you can use."
Neither of these rationales for regulatory intervention is true, however, and there's a simple way to show it. An international comparison of Internet traffic can tell us about the quality of broadband networks and the vibrancy and openness of content markets. Traffic represents all the bits flowing over our networks—email, websites, texts, chats, photos, digital books and movies, video clips, social feeds, searches, transactions, cloud interactions, phone and video calls, interactive maps and apps, software downloads, and much more.
And just what did the numbers tell Swanson?
What I found was that at 18.6 exabytes (18.6 billion gigabytes) a month, the U.S. generates far more traffic per capita and per Internet user than any other major nation save South Korea, which is a vertical metropolis and thus easy to wire with fiber optics. U.S. traffic per capita is 2.1 times that of Japan and 2.7 times that of Western Europe. Several years ago, U.S. and Canadian traffic measures were similar, but today the U.S. has raced ahead by 25%.
The U.S. lead is similar in traffic per Internet user, which tends to reflect how intensely people use broadband and mobile connections. The U.S. outdoes its closest European rival, the U.K., by 57%. The U.S. outdoes all of Western Europe—the best comparison in terms of geography, population and economic development—by a factor of 2.5.
All due respect to my friends and colleagues on the other side of the Title II debate, but does that look like the U.S. broadband market is hurting? Is the Internet really in need of saving by the unelected officials at the FCC?
Perhaps the most exacerbating thing about the Title II argument is the fact that both sides want essentially the same thing — for the Internet to stay open and thriving. What we disagree on is which tool, if any, the FCC should use.
Given the very real threats of reduced private investment in, and increased prices for, broadband that Title II could usher in, the choice should be simple. As Swanson writes:
The U.S., with 4% of the world's population, has 10% of its Internet users, 25% of its broadband investment and 32% of its consumer Internet traffic. The U.S. policy of Internet freedom has worked. Why does Washington want to intervene in a thriving market?
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I thought the idea of a relay was that the baton, or in this case the torch, should be passed on from one runner to the next. I take it, from this BBC article,that around 8000 have been made to give each runner their own. What a ridiculous waste, especially as some are now selling them for a fat profit and not keeping them as a souvenir.
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Posted May 20, 2012 at 8:26PM
I would much rather have one of those 'batons' that the olympic relay runners use when handing over to the next runner as in the 4 X 400 metres. GB usually do quite well in that event.
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Posted May 20, 2012 at 8:27PM
They are not being given to every runner (although runner is perhaps a misnomer as you can walk with it). They can buy them (albeit at below cost price), although some have had them at no cost. It is not surprising that some then sell them.
The relay is not continuous. There are breaks when the flame is carried by bus between locations.
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Posted May 20, 2012 at 8:30PM
It is perhaps worth noting that the 1948 torch bearers did get their torches for free. BBC News
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 7:35AM
And if anything demonstrates that the Olympics more about about making money than just taking part, this does.
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 8:50AM
Bah Humbug says Ebenezer morddwyd...
Just make hay while the sun shines and enjoy the games for what they are!
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 11:29AM
"Just make hay while the sun shines and enjoy the games for what they are!"
A total waste of money.
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 12:33PM
The torch passing through Cornwall and Devon has generated a lot on interest, a good number of spectators, good will and some community spirit. However what a number didn't realise is that it has a convoy section and a relay section. The convoy section is without runners, without the lame being visible and it travels by bus. There have been instances of people being disappointed by being at the wrong section of the route.
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 1:24PM
A Royal Marine triple amputee, Mark Ormrod, is one of the torch bearers, and he also ran in a 3,500 charity run across USA 2 years ago. This guy is an example of how great many of the young generation are, and how grateful we should be to them . Mark Ormrod
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 1:26PM
I heard that one of the torches went out this morning. Must be a faulty one. So beware of buying one on the net as it might also be a duff one. I bet some enterprising gent is already at work reproducing a few thousand.
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Posted May 21, 2012 at 1:27PM
BTW the flame on a torch has gone out, so it is a good job they have back up! Flameout
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A slight chance of moisture touching the town could come Wednesday once a small system passes through, but the heat will come either way, with the temperature on the rise following Sunday's cold front, likely peaking at 85 by Thursday or Friday.
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Sociodemographic Differentials of the Self-rated Health of the Oldest-old Chinese
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This study explores the correlation between sociodemographic factors and theself-rated health status of the oldest-old Chinese (80 and older). The data werefrom the Healthy Longevity Survey in China conducted in 1998. We applied astereotype ordered regression model to capture the ordinal nature of the responsevariable. We found that age group, sex, living arrangement, educational attainment,and occupational history were associated significantly with the self-rated healthstatus of the oldest-old Chinese, and the elderly with lower social status tended tonegatively evaluate health status. We reached the conclusions after controlling suchvariables as the capacity of physical performance of daily activities and chronic diseases.
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- Sociodemographic Differentials of the Self-rated Health of the Oldest-old Chinese
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Population Research and Policy Review
Volume 23, Issue 2 , pp 117-133
- Cover Date
- 2004-04-01
- 10.1023/B:POPU.0000019921.20777.1b
- Print ISSN
- 0167-5923
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7829
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- China
- the oldest-old
- self-rated health
- stereotype regression model
- sociodemographic differentials
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- Authors
- Guiping Liu (1)
- Zhen Zhang (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Max-Planck-Institute for Demographic Research, Konrad-Zuse-Strasse 1, D-18057, Rostock, Germany
- 2. Institute of Population Research, Yunnan University, Kunming City, China


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... a local market. The market reminded us of a more modern West Side Market. Ross and I bought some cheese and chocolate (priorities, right?). The cruise directors were also on hand to offer us samples of many of the cheeses and other delicacies offered at the market. I may also want to mention that it is about 32 degrees and snowing right now in Russia. While we were not prepared for these wintery conditions, I guess it's a "When in ...
Moscow Miracle - Arriving in the Heart of Russia
... us, but if they had a significant number of passengers connecting back to the USA through Moscow, they might leave without us. I circulated through the Boeing 787 talking with those I could find about our options.
Not fully reassured myself, I garnered a couple hours of sleep, briefed myself on our Moscow walk the day following, and looked forward to more information in the couple of hours before we touched down in ...
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... where the athletes come after their race, then nearly didn't move when the first 100m semi finished and they came through. Oops. Some shots of athletes coming and going, while I just did a bit of spotting-Monsieur camera, ici Chambers. With a gap before the final I went for some food in the press box and to excite my inner fan boy a little more, Steve Cram came in and sat in front of me. I'd just read a friend posting on Facebook about Colin Jackson holding a pen on ...
No more vodka please
... and it was nice to see a traditional Russian ballet while we were there even though it was not even Christmas yet. Unfortunately the concept of sitting in the seat you had on your ticket seemed to escape most of the audience near where we were, so there was lots of shuffling about for the first 15 mins as all the people sitting in the wrong seats had to move when the latecomers arrived, but after this settled down, the ballet was really good.
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On Wednesday, David Gergen ranked a supposed foreign policy accomplishment of President Obama higher than the killing of Osama bin Laden during CNN's special coverage of the Democrat's "historic..decision to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba." Gergen contended that "ultimately, he's going to be judged very favorably by history...on climate change. It probably is the most significant thing he's done – the breakthrough he had with China – and if he can get the world to a better agreement, that's going to go down as a major legacy."
During the five minutes of coverage that Thursday's NBC Today provided on President Obama reopening diplomatic relations with Cuba, only twenty-three seconds was devoted to critics of the controversial move. In addition, the only opponent featured was Republican Senator Marco Rubio, despite Democratic Senator Robert Menendez equally condemning the presidential action.
The journalists of Good Morning America on Thursday cheered Barack Obama's efforts to "help thaw a Cold War" and offered little in the way of criticism for the President's actions to normalize relations with Cuba. Reporter Jim Avila hyped, "Well soon many more Americans will be able to hop a plane to Havana, take a tour, even legally buy one of those famous cigars."
During a discussion on Wednesday's Hardball about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's reticence to speak out on pressing political issues and her tendency to eschew spontaneity in favor of carefully crafted, calculated statements, panelist Michelle Bernard did raise the point that Clinton has tended to evolve over time to be what she thinks her audience wants her to be. As an example, she raised the audio recording that came to light earlier this year wherein she chuckled as she recalled her successful defense of an alleged child rapist.
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Ed Schultz one-upped colleague Chuck Todd on his MSNBC program on Wednesday. Hours after Todd likened President Obama's policy announcement on Cuba to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Schultz compared the Democrat's address to a famous 1987 speech given at the Wall by his predecessor, Ronald Reagan: "Isn't this Barack Obama's 'tear down this wall, Mr. Castro' – that kind of a moment? I mean, if change can take place with the Soviet Union, why can't it take place with the Cuban people here?"
During an NBC News Special Report on Wednesday, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams could barely contain his excitement over President Obama announcing the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba: "A momentous day, especially for those Americans old enough to remember the Cold War. The curtain came down between Cuba and the United States in January of 1961 and in just a moment diplomatic relations, at least the first steps to which, will be reestablished....It is a day of momentous change, fast-moving change..."
All three networks on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning worried if yet another addition to the Bush "dynasty" will be good for the country. Yet, these same networks were excited earlier this year about the continuation of the Clinton brand.
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd spun former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announcing that he was "exploring" the possibility of running for president in 2016 as a boost for the candidacy of Hillary Clinton: "By the way, the big Jeb Bush announcement helps Hillary because it'll scare Democrats and rally them around Hillary even more."
Just a few seconds after complaining that Rush Limbaugh has a loopy "conspiracy theory" for why former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) is seriously exploring a presidential bid in 2016, MSNBC's Chris Matthews offered his own, which amounted to this: Limbaugh opposes Jeb's bid because he "knows" a "Tea Party" GOP nominee would go down in flames to Hillary Clinton, thus ensuring him at least four more years in the "opposition" and thus better ratings.
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell could barely conceal her disgust while reporting on a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showing a majority of Americans supported the enhanced interrogation tactics used by the CIA after September 11th: "51% said that the procedures used, the interrogation enhanced tactics, which have been defined as torture, 51% said that they were acceptable under the circumstances. Only 28% said that they went too far."
Former Islamist Maajid Nawas warned Westerners on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN about the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia. Nawas underlined that it was a "mistake" to label perpetrator Man Haron Monis a "lone wolf," as it "doesn't necessary describe the phenomenon correctly....what we're really dealing with here is fundamental inspiration. People are inspired by the ideas; the leaders; the symbols; and the narratives – the iconography behind this ideology."
Before the hostage standoff with an Islamic gunman in Sydney had even ended on Monday, the media had already seized on a social media campaign that offered protection to Australian Muslims against imagined bigotry that had not occurred. On Good Morning America, co-host George Stephanopoulos touted: "The #IllRideWithYou trending worldwide on Twitter. It's a message of tolerance from Sydney residents offering solidarity with Muslims in the cities. Locals concerned people in religious attire could be harassed."


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... a gas station/truck stop (the chain of stores, J&H Family Stores, at this gas station are the circus sponsors here) so when we finally arrived, we were shown where to park, we bought some snacks and settled in to the Ice Worlds part of the Planet Earth DVD (the emperor penguins are my absolute favorite part of that DVD).
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... the Goodnews River Lodge Drew and Gabe, almost put a hurtin' on a bunch of Lake run fish. Had some great weather and great time w/ the Stracco guys (minus little Nicky).
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The first and only Kabuki brush I'll probably ever own! I love the results I get when I use this to apply and blend loose powder. Also great for blending bronzer into the face, and getting rid of liquid foundation streaks. Why would I switch to something else when this does such an awesome job?!
I bought this brush as I was in dire need of a new kabuki, since my old one was just too rough and not particularly soft at all. This brush, on the other hand, is so soft and dense! It quickly applies my mineral foundation all over my face and feels really soft on my skin at the same time. It has not shed so far for me either.
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I love this because it's so soft and dense, so it's great for applying powder. It doesn't shed and it washes really well. I think's it's amazing quality and I would highly recommend it.
Most E.L.F. cosmetics and brushes run you about 1, 2, or three dollars. But others, such as this brush and the high definition powder, will cost six dollars, at least at Target. This brush is colored like a reverse stippiling brush (black bottom bristles, white top bristles, if that makes any sense) and has a short black stub for a handle. I'm quite confused on where to store this because it's so cute and short and won't be tall enough for my brush cup, but is too adorable to be stuffed in my makeup drawer, so I keep it on my dresser and bask in its mini glory. The amazing thing about this brush is that you can use it for so much. I use it for blush on a daily basis, and could use it for bronzer if I wanted to (I prefer the studio blush brush for that. If you use mineral makeup, this would be amazing for that. I also want to try it with liquid foundation. I seriously love this brush, and have been so impressed with the E.L.F. studio line. I honestly can't believe this beauty is only six dollars! How does elf do it?! The one thing I don't like this for is powder--if I try to set my makeup with this, I find that it sort of smears my foundation/concealer around on my face. I do love this tough. Also, it does shed a little, but for six dollars I don't mind.
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I really love this little brush, and I use it with a liquid foundation for a nice blended appearance. One thing though, you have to wash it frequently.
Does a great job. Just wish the handle was a tad bigger. Besides that, I love it. Use it on the daily with powder and powder foundation.
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Firstly, let me tell you, this brush is awesome. If you are in US, this will be an amazing buy for you as it costs only $5-$6, but in Singapore, it retails for $19.90 and this is really normal because makeup in sg is really really expensive and even the price of an average drugstore mascara is $20, but let me tell you, I would rather spend $20 on a brush than to pay $80 for a (mac kabuki) brush that is similar in both density and quality! Great for beginners like me! Definitely recommend and is super soft it feels like a pillow literally!
Edit: I guess I'm gonna have to splurge on a MAC 182 buffer brush! This sucks... Ive washed it a few times since and when I was trying to squeeze the excess water out, the whole freakin brush flew out! Literally! I was like HOLY MOLY!!! Hahaha! Anyway, I'll never try another elf brush... Super disappointed :(
And when I washed it with olive oil and antibacterial hand soap, it did not rinse properly no matter how hard I tried and felt sticky... Yikes
This is definitely a great buy considering it was only $6.00!
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-My one any only complaint is the fact that it sheds like crazy. It's been through around 6 washes and it just won't stop shedding.
Overall, I'd highly recommend this brush for anyone on a beauty budget looking for a nice brush that will get the job done!
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