Chronicles of Diversity

21 June 2006; Volume 8, Issue 21

PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/christianacqui6-21-6.pdf

The world in which we all live is no longer a world of peace and tranquility. I suppose for most people throughout history it really has never been a world without continual stress, a lot of that just plain survival stress. But we in western culture and especially in the United States have for many years lived a life of relative prosperity and security.

The politically correct spin continues, “All that changed after 9-11!” After which it is appropriate to chime in, “Amen, brother, or sister, preach it.” As soon as possible thereafter we speak to (not about) how we now have to walk all that distance to the bus stop, through the rain, wind, and terrorists alerts, when we used to just drive from our home’s secure garage to the secure parking garage. Well, we still do drive from garage to garage, but at least now we think of the price of gas. “Thank God, the price is coming down, it was getting close to the price I pay for bottled water.”

In America we have really bought into the line that stuff brings security. But we really are unwilling to commit anything, except money to maintain that lifestyle. Let me explain.

I was working this week in a place that has NPR (National Public Radio) continually playing in the background. One of the things I learned, is we can all go to a Summer Solstice event this weekend celebrating the Summer Solstice that happens today. How American is that, we have to make our paganism fit our narcissistic schedule, with no concept that there is a real world, sunrise, and longest day that we missed.

Furthermore, I learned that in the State of Washington we are soon going to have toll highways and bridges to pay for us to develop the infrastructure to collect tolls and user fees. This is required because, we no longer can collect sufficient revenues from car license tabs probably even to pay for the licensing system. Someday some of this money might get down to really paying for something required, but that is doubtful, because infrastructure and maintenance is always funded after it breaks, with capital bonds. That is more expensive in the long run, but it makes us feel good about union construction workers getting paid to build something new, rather than union governmental workers getting paid to keep something working. The private sector functions at its best through government grants and handouts.

I also finished Ann Coulter’s book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” It was a really funny book, except for the underlying truth, that we really do live in a evolutionary godless country. Reading between the lines I got the feeling that Ann was an “Intelligent Design” creationist. However, if you consider your profession to be a Conservative pundit, being a young earth creationist, would probably get you black listed from all appearances anywhere on the pundit circuit.

Christian acquiescence, I wondered how I was going to get to that Segway (sic) from my introduction. I do know that Ann’s book was designed with intelligence. Whether she is just an intelligent designer, or whether she really believes the Bible from Genesis to Revelation is between her and God, in which she truly believes. Before we can really have a debate on whether intelligent design is really all that is required to be a Christian, or just an evolutionary development within Christianity, you must first establish that evolution is bogus religion, philosophy, and it therefore follows bogus science. Hopefully, this book is a public first step toward removing the religion of evolution from our schools and public institutions. A real series of monkey trials in the making, but evolution is all about “inheriting the wind.”

This brings us to Christian doctrine. Traveling through Ballard last week I had the opportunity to stop at a store that handles all sorts of trashy merchandise and kitsch. Sure enough I was able to buy a bag of “warm fuzzies.” I got the bag of big warm fuzzies, rather than the big bag of little warm fuzzies. The point being the world is such a place today, that a little warm fuzzy probably is not adequate to provide you with the emotional support you require.

While I only learned this partially from Ann’s book, I suspect that warm fuzzies are more a guy type of thing, women really need a hug from another human personality when times are really bad. A ping pong sized ball of fluff is more than adequate for a man, especially if the warm fuzzy is in a bright color. I wonder if this has anything to do with feminization of the church? Aren’t men and women all just an evolved mass of primal ooze?

I suppose I worked for too much of my life around engineers and scientists. As I said last week, I am content to not be a good engineer or scientist, because I never really could develop enough faith to believe in evolution as a component of true science. However, a little cause and effect type of reasoning from self proclaimed good professionals has rubbed off.

Except in the case of evolutionary development, the more design information within an entity, generally the more predicable the entity when facing certain (environmental) factors. This is generally true in computer programs, tomatoes, and people. Emotions may be cataloged, but they really cannot be quantified, or at least I think a guy engineer would say that. Doctrine however, is information that can be crunched and either adopted or rejected.

Fundamental to all humanity is the desire to belong to a family, a group, a community. We are belonging creations. We can’t evolve that way, we were created that way. Virtually all the time we belong to groups that make us feel good, we reject groups that make us feel uneasy. To feel accepted we generally adapt to the group rather than try to change it into our own likeness. As I was once lectured, if we both agree on everything, then one of us is not needed, which is a harsh evolutionary statement, but to a certain extent there is a manner of truth within. We keep our true thoughts to ourselves to find acceptance, or maybe even just to keep our job. Carry this joining and falsifying our emotions in order to belong to the extreme, can make us mentally ill, but to a lesser degree, allows us to acquiesce to group reasoning, when a stand on the facts (information) is required.

Christianity in America has acquiesced to the evolutionary world to keep our jobs, and as a result we have lost our voice. As Ann’s book states this is really godless liberals against everyone else, but the crunchable facts state that there is very little discernible difference between the Church and the world, except for legalistic issues. Legalism is not morality, legalism is morality without context.

Radical Islam (to a lesser extent all Islam) practices it’s religion during the week. Godless evolution practices it’s religion continually, and Christians go to church on Sunday. Even the practice of celebrating the Summer Solstice is evolutionarily OK for the following weekend, because we are still evolving toward permanent situational Nirvana. However, true Christianity is built upon the foundation of law and gospel, not just law. Any good Lutheran or Calvinist will tell you that. They may not be able to tell you what that means, but at least that will give you enough information to begin to overcome your acquiescence.

Christians are not supposed to evolve, they are supposed to develop. Ask your pastor, or any pastor, about his (or her) development plans, and you will probably get a list of all sorts of huggy, warm fuzzy programs to win the lost. But think about it for a moment, the church never was, nor never will be called to win the lost. The church is called to preach the gospel, in the context of an unattainable holy standard of God’s righteousness. If the gospel is only presented as a Sunday thing, as you work your way through the Bible, or in a context of acquiescent sensitivity, it really is not the gospel presented in the requirements of the New Testament.

Scribes and Pharisees were the religious leaders of Jesus time. When he walked into church he was not greeted with a warm fuzzy and a hug. In fact, he was responsible for throwing them out of the temple. Law and gospel cannot be proclaimed in a seeker sensitive huggy fuzzy way, because it was designed, not by a great designer, but by God to be offensively offensive. Sometimes the truth hurts, but the truth also saves.

The Bible was also written in an offensively offensive way. In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Between that and a chaotic description of that creation, is no slightest inkling of a gap of millions of years, or the fall of satan, or starting again because you didn’t do it right the first time. Stretching the seven day week of creation into millions and billions of years through theistic evolution is also a figment of a creative exegesis to worldly acquiescence.

I’m not against hugs and warm fuzzies, what I am saying is truthfully hugs and warm fuzzies are a waste of time and resources unless they are built upon the information of Absolute Truth. Now what is the greater problem in life, getting a hug from a hypocrite who thinks he is a saint, or getting a hug from a saint that knows he is a hypocrite?

What passes as evangelical Christianity today is the former and is a type of acquiescence that not only allows evolutionist to think that they are not religious people, but also makes many of those raised within the church question the whole of the Christian message when they realize reality is not fostered by what would Jesus do, never knowing that true Christianity is built upon what Jesus did.

What Jesus did, is what must lead the parade of all our human attempts to love and be loved. Therefore, much of Christianity today will not stand the test of time because of its acquiescent nature. Christians must be living symbols of God’s grace in human form for that is the truth by which we find reason and hope in life, it is not in acquiescence to the world of evolutionary materialism. Get over it, the world does not love you, the world never will love you until you become one of them. If you acquiesce to those desires you become as Esau, trading your Christian birthright for a single bowl of lentil stew.

Our latest Chronicles:

Creation Speaks; PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/creationspeaks5-10-6.pdf
It’s all about time; PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/abouttime5-17-6.pdf
Rootless in the world; PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/rootless5-24-6.pdf
Unity in Diversity; PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/unitydiversity5-31-6.pdf
Evolved Units; PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/evolvedunits6-7-6.pdf
Chaos Economics; PDF link: http://www.wondersprings.com/2006pdffiles/chaoseconomics6-14-6.pdf