And modern morality is built on Big Lies, reinforced by dishonesty and calculated misrepresentation at every level; as everybody knows who has even considered being truthful all the time about everything. Genuine honesty is not just blocked and threatened and punished; but actually regarded as evil in itself: as in the influential concept of a Hate Fact; i.e. something true but (by definition) only articulated by an evil person).
The ultimate modern 'evil' (at least this week...) is racism; which is now/ in practice/ officially 'defined' (i.e. actually used) in a way which is both dishonest and (obviously) evil; incoherent yet deployed with focused spite; motivated by resentment and destructive hatred against all that is genuinely Christian.
The corruption of modernity has proved to be so powerful as to sweep away or assimilate all alternatives excepting the personal (not church) Christianity 'of the heart' - which is itself, indirectly, a kind of evidence for the unique truth of (specifically) Christainty, and a strong clue to the proper nature of that Christianity.
So, although this really is the worst-of-times; it is also a time in which is is possible for us consciously to learn and know reality more exactly than any before; and therefore to make a deliberate choice in its favour.
In some ways I am grateful. In some ways this is the best of times...
Almost every day I receive clear reminders and convincing evidence of both the reality-of and the difference-between Good and evil. And the absence of God from public life means it is ever-more-obvious what is the source of Good.
So real that these days God genuinely seems almost 'objective', palpable, and pressing on my awareness - although of course invisible to nearly-all; denied, ridiculed, and ignored by nearly-all...
For me; it's probably easier to stay Christian now, and to keep the faith; than ever it would have been in the past.
Adapted from a comment here...
Agreed, I have noticed this in my life and that of others close to me
ReplyDeleteThe Great Global Totalitarian Coup has had the effect of invigorating my faith very quickly and definitively, and greatly increasing the intensity of my daily religious practice. And I think that if the coup hadn´t happened, the temptation to backslide or slack, even if on little things (which in fact are only little to the rational mind... everything matters) would´ve been greater.
The World (by which I mean the System, the ideologies and schemas of interpretation it creates and enforces, the type of people it rewards and promotes) has become so obviously wicked and disgusting that the illusion that it, in and of itself, could possibly be a ground for gaining fulfillment and meaning has been completely and irrevocably shattered.
As you have said, the choice has never been clearer, never been easier...
An excellent articulation of the state of things. Lately you've been knocking them out of the park again and again, Bruce. (William's linked post is also excellent.)
ReplyDeleteIndeed, one of the best tells of the evilness of Wokedom is that they are always against things, but never speak of a positive vision. They know how to destroy, but not how to create. They don't even articulate something that they would create if they were able to create. Even the Communists envisioned a Workers' Paradise. Wokedom can only envision white people kneeling before rioters, presumably forever.
"Genuine honesty is ... actually regarded as evil in itself." Yep.
"The ultimate modern 'evil' (at least this week...) is racism ... which is ... incoherent yet deployed with focused spite; motivated by resentment and destructive hatred." Yep. Though I wonder what you had in mind when you added, "against all that is genuinely Christian."
"So, although this really is the worst-of-times; it is also a time in which is is possible for us consciously to learn and know reality more exactly than any before; and therefore to make a deliberate choice in its favour. ... In some ways this is the best of times..." Semi-regularly I find someone here or there on the internet who was persuaded to return to God by the ever-increasing evidence all around us of supernatural evil. That was certainly part of the process by which I was persuaded, though not the biggest part.
Are you receiving strange knowledge, beyond what you write about on your blog? I'm having strange dreams and imaginations, mysterious solutions to deep problems etc. Lots of it seems bizarre, irrelevant, of no possible practical use. Who would believe us?
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