CHAPTER
1
MUCK,
MUDDLE and MEANING
Humanism with Tears
News 247
News Radio,
The Guardian, November 11 and 13, 2002
The Advertiser,
First, to get the perspective, may one suggest you read the Preface. Otherwise, like
a cliff walk in the dark, as the breakers boom and the spray lifts, your walk
may be a misadventure. Heights need knowledge, or they can become depths, not
jubilant but jagged. Truth is not an option, but a necessity. You need a map
where mapping is to be found!
But perhaps you prefer faster action than walking ?
Rail ? You had better be on the right train in that case.
The express train does not stop at stations, when once it is well away. This
world is well away, careering to its end. Unfortunately for it, the platform is
called Destruction, and the alighting point has no light, for the place is
Doom. Its light is gloom, its clamour is darkness. It is better not to be on
that train.
It will go its way, as did the empires before its finale and
farce (Acts
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God, who made the world
and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in
temples made with hands. Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed
anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. And He has made
from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and
has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,
so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him
and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and
move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are
also His offspring.’
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Therefore, since we are
the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold
or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. Truly, these
times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to
repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in
righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this
to all by raising Him from the dead.”
Doom is forever but this world is not forever; it is merely
the stage. It is man who is forever, though alas, in grief is an end which is
godless, forlorn and lost. Another train should be taken than the train du monde, the train of mere
events.
Consider II Peter 3:
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“Beloved, I now write to you
this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of
reminder), that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the
holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and
Savior, knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking
according to their own lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of creation.’
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For this they willfully
forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing
out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished,
being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved
by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord
one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is
not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering
toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to
repentance.
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“But the day of the Lord
will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a
great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and
the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things
will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and
godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of
which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt
with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
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“Therefore, beloved,
looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace,
without spot and blameless …”
THE NEWS IS NOT AMUSING
Before we plunge into our survey of elements of feminism and
female debasement, masculinism and lordliness, often inflated tinniness,
dubious pledges and puniness, as current events move to their just (in result)
but unjust (in procedure) conclusion, let us realise afresh the folly of
imagining that the systematic order which is the basis of all our human
disorder (giving it scope and to enterprise capacity for creating ruin), does
not matter. Let us pity the position that our Author of DNA and mind, thought
and originality, comprehension and will, is unconcerned at our use of His
equipment, including ourselves, and loves to have His will affronted by
contrary devisings that look little to the way they are made, but much to what
they will. Revolt against right is always revolting in the end.
HIS WILL is His creation, but man has specialised in
desecration. His will FOR His creation is not feebly to audit His defamation,
the degradation of His works and the dead dynamics of depraved obsessions; for
this in all its forms, is not true. Hence is at war with Him, who like thought
and peace, love and courage, is invisible; and not seldom, in sight as in
substance, at war likewise that dependent reality called creation, at the same
time.
The very air of our twenty first century, reeling on from
the twentieth, reeks with the will to kill:
¨ in
¨ in
¨ in
¨ in
the
¨ in
¨ in
Africa, Thailand and many other countries, with AIDS aided by floating morals,
that make murder indirect, but just as sure on the part of many, for millions, and
life fouled for countless children in body or support,
¨ in
¨ in
¨ in
¨ in
India and Kashmir,
¨ in
Afghanistan,
¨ in
Lebanon for so many torturous years,
¨ in
Chechnya,
¨ in
New York by aerial invasion,
¨ in
Columbia for the sake of drugs,
¨ in
the Argentine under Pinochet,
¨ in
Sri Lanka for independence,
¨ in
Georgia ditto,
¨ in
Kuwait for the grip on oil,
¨ and
now wherever the religious thugs desire, in order that they might protest at
the liberation of East Timor, or Afghanistan from people parading a religion of
force and violence.
This last, it has been the intimation of a reported message
via the so compliant El Jazeera of
Qatar (The Advertiser, Monday Nov.
18, 2002), from bin Laden, annoyed, it would seem, that people dare to want
liberty for others, rather than oppression with guns and ethics that make of
women a travesty of the dignity of their creation, as happened in Afghanistan
and has been so well documented (cf. The
Guardian, November 13, 2002,
Benevolent Brightness or Brothy Bane 82, p. 206).
How many of the woman in the so blighted land, now rejoice to be able to learn
in school, and female teachers, to teach! Not a thing for man, but a potential comrade,
woman requires love not the pageantry of ‘purity’ that is a slavery in thin
disguise. Purity for whom ? for the lust of man, that it be amply sated with
multiple ministrations from subjects ? Love requires purity, and purity starts
within, for all, and is from above.
Despite the suffering and war, The Guardian report indicates from people interviewed in the land,
it is wonderful for women no more to be ludicrously vilified objects of male
attention, as if they had little other
purpose, so that now they can learn and become qualified. Being a help MEET for
man is not to be a subject OWNED, for it is God who owns us all (cf. Dance of Life, Ch.
10, A Spiritual Potpourri). The enslavement
to laws of such a limited vision and so tainted a beneficiary, so devastatingly
wasteful and unfair, is merely one more example of war: this time of one gender
on another. Alas, THE MISERY OF AFGHANISTAN IS NOT LEAST RELIGIOUS.
Al Qaeda
is in one aspect, an attempt to export it, not by that country, but by those
who used and abused it, as reportedly also neighbouring
This
evil, it is however not the dictatorial dynamic alone, as often in Islam: it is
found from Hitler to Mao, from Stalin to Milosovic, from Napoleon to Kaiser,
from Genghis Khan to the papacy, from tyrant to tyrant and time to time, like
the salt on steak, usually around; but this salt is insult to the human race,
and assault on the God who made it.
Man is in effect making war on himself, by attacking his God,
who is not available for reconstruction of convenience, but simply IS.
Irreversible, irreformable, His will and His word are alike the expression of
WHO HE IS: “I am”. Why people go to such pains
to worship what is not there (as censured in Deuteronomy 32:15-21), in novelty
religions that have neither the verified antiquity nor the verified predictions
of the truth, and to rebel against the living God, even daring to use His name
very often in the process, is all a part of the mystery of iniquity (cf. The
Other News, Appendix I, SMR pp. 1080ff.).
Since God is of a goodness which is its very source and original, exhibited in
Jesus Christ at the date for centuries appointed (Highway of Holiness Ch. 4), and confirmed for ever afterwards in every mood and
mode of history, which His predictive words with those of the prophets have
embraced like the clasp of a lover, this rebellion is the more tainted than
ever: headstrong and lustful.
It is very important to be clear about this matter.
In need of nothing from what He has altogether created,
deriving nothing from any of it that He needs (for needs indicate incompletion
and potential, whereas God is not dowered by anyone), He gives. For what He
gives, man is answerable. (Cf. Little Things Ch.
5, Spiritual Refreshings… Ch. 9,
News 122, It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls … Ch. 9.)
That He both gives and lives are fundamental to the
happiness of man. If man chooses to leave out his car (if you will, for simple
analogy), without garage, and to imagine that the manufacturer wants it
wrecked, so never goes to the service station, so be it! It is slander and it
is foolish; but it can be done.
As to God, however, of HIS judgments He gives ample
attestation, as for famous example, in the Pharaoh at the Exodus, when warning
after warning of the most express, articulate and interpreted character was
provided, but in vain. Pharaoh hasted to his own ruin, in a flurry of
independence from God, truth and justice which has made his name a laughing
stock, the grim-faced tyrant for whom nothing, repeat nothing could be permitted to bring halt. When however, it comes to
immovability, there is but One like that, and He IS the truth, though He
suffered defamation that we might be delivered through His redeeming death.
That He would rise was at once obvious (cf. Acts 2:23-24, cf. SMR Ch. 6), and glorious; God CANNOT be other than
victorious when He knows all there is, and made it! He even evenhandedly
forecasts the results of contests, and then does them; He even forecasts the
contemporary love of denying the flood and the judgment of God, as if obsession
had replaced thought in modern man (as shown in II Peter 3:3ff.), laughing at
folly, but enduring it on earth as the Saviour, that men might be cleared of it
(Romans 2:21-28).
God does not need to impress Himself: creation IS His
impress, both the beginning of it and the curse, both the curse and the cure.
If any reader would like some amplification at this phase,
as we walk along the cliffs, please turn to Ancient Words, Modern Deeds Chs.
9 and 13, with Little
Things Ch. 5 and Calibrating Myths … Chs. 7 and 9 and Beyond the Curse, Ch. 7 of Biblical Blessings and SMR Ch. 1 and pp. 580ff., Repent or Perish Ch. 2). Meanwhile, we must press on to our
news. It is multiple in kind, but single in thrust!
PM BLAIR AND THE LORD MAYOR’S BANQUET SPEECH
It is not of course merely a Moslem matter, this decline.
Thus Charles is on record as thinking of himself as the defender
of faiths (hard to do, when some want to obliterate the exponents of others),
and what is not falling of itself*1A, is helped by the
European Union*1 as seen in some of
these references. Now the energetic PM Blair has much to say about things,
about Al Qaeda, about dangers, about steps to be taken by BRITONS. There is to
be more KNOWLEDGE about other religions; and respect for them. Thus whereas in
USA the idea is that that nation should uh! … consider, see if it is really
worth it to support Israel to the extent that it does (leaving Europe far
behind cf. Earth Spasm … Ch. 5, News 53); England, it seems, needs to review its regard for religions! This arm twisting, or Nelson lock on the neck, it
is a part of education as to the truth ? the truth that the body has frailty ?
But this, it was known beforehand!
What then is this revised religious approach of the PM’s
recommendation ? It is this:
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“…we
need to create bridges of understanding between religious faiths also. Part of
the fanaticism is religious. Part of the solution lies in religion too. … Young
people need to be brought up with a clear understanding of other faiths,
respect them and cultivate knowledge both of differences and the vast areas of
common values and traditions of which so many are ignorant… The point is simply
this: if a unified international community is the surest way to defeat these
new dangers, we need to construct the broad agenda around which unity can
coalesce.”
With
all of this, we are perforce reminded of the UN statements, which have already
gone to such depths. Let us cite from the Mystery of Iniquity.
This refers to the UN’s Convention of Child Rights”
Article 9 - this tells us that... "States Parties shall
respect the right of the child not to be separated from his or her parents
against their will, except when competent authorities ... determine... that such
separation is necessary for the best interests of the child."
Now as to those "best interests", we have from this
grand and cheerfully instructive international body, more advice. The child,
and of course, it is obvious... shall " be brought up in the spirit of the
ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular in
the spirit of peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality and
solidarity."
Solidarity ? With what ? Why, but of course... with the United
Nations, with that one earth which the forces which do not care to introduce
God, prefer to have instead. Thus we shall see later, in the Declaration on the Elimination of ...
Discrimination Based on Religion..., there is a necessity that the child be
reared in "universal brotherhood", within the confines of concepts of
world peace, and contrary views are simply "inadmissible".
Running God's earth however in His absence, and His children without Him, on principles where He somehow does not appear, is Biblically by definition, antichristian.
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There you see the unambiguous
solidarity with the UN, with the inter-faith movement, with the jettisoning of
absolute truth, to which England via the Bible has ostensibly been committed
for several better than normal centuries, despite the elements of hypocrisy
which have crept in, so that the effort is to DEFUSE tensions by CONFUSING
realities, and this, by ignoring the basic differences, of the order of
infinity, in favour of some similarities, which like clothes worn, do not
change the heart. Christ and the Koran are as near as heaven and hell, violence
BY and violence AGAINST God, redemption and effort, consistency and tortuous
self-contradiction, the verified and the exhaustively ill-attested.
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One says, Yes, Christ is He, and there is and can be, no other. The other
declares, Christ is merely a member of
the greats, and has been superceded in the latest release special from heaven.
One says, Accept your sin and its pardon
in Christ. The other says, Not a bit
of it; get on with getting yourself to heaven. One says,
Christ died for sinners; the other is
not even sure that He died at all (cf. More Marvels Ch.
4, SMR pp. 1080ff., Highway to Hell, Endnote 1). In essence, in purpose, in
salvation, in grace, in force, in the very identity of God, in His ways and in
His greatest works, they agree like Labour and Liberal, Light and Darkness,
riches and poverty or indeed, validity and invalidity.
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To seek respect for the disreputable,
to seek honour for what defiles Christ (I Samuel 2:30, John 10:30, 1:1,
5:19ff., 8:58), to do it with world peace WITHOUT Christ as the criterion, is
of course first of all unbelief (Isaiah 9:7, Ephesians 1:10). Secondly, it is
as has been shown, irrational. Thirdly, like all irrational things, it will not
work. Fourthly, God has gone to extreme pains in the only religion which is
logically attested, to declare two things. ONE: honour to what is not
honourable is dishonourable (Isaiah 5:20, 8:20), and respect for what pollutes
is no wisdom; and TWO, that this is what has been done (Genesis 11, Isaiah 14),
will be done and will finally be judged in the finale of exposure of the
wickedness of man (Revelation 13, 17, 19, II Thess. 2).
Seeking to combine, or to make much of supposed similarities
between these two religions is no better than making comparisons between the
casings of an atomic bomb and a cabin portmanteau. To be sure there may be marked
similarities; but in function, and in reality, in fact and in utility, these
are not at all not to the point! You could ask the ship’s crew (if any) after
the explosion of the one, their opinion!
This sort of convention of making a convenience of religion
is not new. It is as old as Babel, as Judas, as simony. It is a sale, not
necessarily for money, but sometimes for survival. It has not come
without a cause or a preliminary which makes even
possible so to speak to such a nation as England! A Question of Gifts Section VII, News 122,
News 121! But it has come.
Just as in the UN, the stage has been reached, already, where
the child MUST be brought up in a spirit of total human brotherhood (whereas
Christ declared of some that they were of their father, the devil - John 8:44,
and John the apostle declared that those who do not receive Christ, the Son of
God, live the lie! - I John 2:22, 5:41:1-4), so now in England is this
spiritually vicious if socially well-meaning disclaimer being made. What is for
world peace and brotherhood, says the UN, is what must be. Now since this body
has no record of belief in Christ, it is apparent that IT, the UN is the
arbiter, and the world that now is, is the criterion.
What then is the trend of the baneful message ? It is this:
If people fight about religion, they must stop. If some Muslims want to kill
many Christians, very well, something must be done to stop them. Otherwise
where is peace ? So goes this style of reasoning. It is not the matter of
truth, but of living a little longer, which seems paramount. It is not the
question of fealty to God, but placating man, in whatever condition, however
appalling, he may be. It is not healing, but deliverance from the threats of
the godless, whose god is an idol and whose ways are not His (Psalm 96).
Therefore these things, these palliative measures, these
placations, these insinuations, they must be made; and so it must be. That is
the appearance of the message in this case.
MUST IT ? Must then Christ be killed not only in His own
body, but in the servitude (if such programs were successfully to be followed)
to be brought upon His followers. They must, doubtless, have their children
brought up in the UN mould, so that Christianity must be perverted, since
although it does not believe in violence in the ‘interests’ of faith, others do
not like to have its gospel presented, Christ’s claims proclaimed, God’s word
applied: it disturbs them. That they are wrong in their intimidatory threats,
their violence and their murderous machinations, this does not appear to
matter.
What then is the plan ? It is this: Thus some new
international accord must be reached so that, with understanding and goodwill,
we realise and others realise that we realise, that it does not really matter
so much. What matters then ? It is MAN! This is the purest of the impure, the
most chemically exact version of impurity: it is humanism with a touch of glory
from somewhere, yet to be determined. It WILL be determined, as the Bible has
for so long and so crisply told us (II Thessalonians 2), in the form of the
Director in his mad movement to BE God, or rather to SHOW HIMSELF that he IS
GOD!
It has to start, if it is to finish. It has long started,
and this new Banquet Speech, allied to the UN declarations, is coming nearer to
the finish! What was a bulwark for the faith, now grows nearer, as has Bush
done for his part (cf. Red Alert Ch.
16), to the finale of confusion.
Apologetically, this is merely a verification of the Bible
in that what has to come, is now to be seen coming at a frantic rate, inspired not
least by the lust for survival, in which religion is to be viewed as a means to
an end. God as a means to an end ? A fascinating thought. It means that man is
lord; but alas, so unworthy, so inept, so lacking in the royalty needed, the
eternity required, to BE GOD! Playing at being God is no game, and no work of
art either! It is a gross and grotesque manipulation, and its artistic merit is
as before, what is described so tersely in Isaiah 52:13-15. The concept of
remaking God, like that of remaking anyone else’s face, is a rather gory story.
It is better left alone*2.
NO THANKS TO ANGST
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What is needed is not this questing angst, but the requested
faith;
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not the writing of the books for man, to seek his survival, but
his revival, in absolute reliance on Almighty God,
of whom the English have heard, to name but one nation, for thousands of years,
and in whose grasp they ostensibly have been glad to place themselves, as a
NATION, these hundreds of years.
The truth is alive and written; it is simply not available
for reconstruction. That way lies destruction, for in the grace and mercy of
God, the path of peace is already revealed, and the cost for it.
To seek thus to impose a new look, in a New Age, and a new
stage for man, is merely to revert to the old game of intolerance of the truth.
It matters little what is the reason for such a movement as is clearly seen in
the UN; it matters infinitely that it occurs. Death may be brought about by
many means. It matters little what are the means; it is the result which is the
criterion. So here: this and that motive - and there are MANY motives moving
man to this result, of which survival is but one in general - is of interest;
and when one reasons with those caught in any such net, indeed it needs some
concentration on that point. They are dazzled by cut glass, esteeming it above
diamonds; but truth cuts without limit, and manufactured pretence is mere
searing to the eye.
Thus the real point remains. In the end, in the scenario of
man, it is the FACT that faith is replaced, that faith in Christ is coming to
be replaced in more and more ways and places, with faith in man and his
methods: it is this that counts. You may commit perjury against the truth in
court, in many ways; it is the occurrence which matters, which constitutes the
crime.
Man proposes; God disposes. God is disposed to bless, and
has presented the truth in writing. What then is this… other writing ? but a
writhing, and a contortion, and an abortion, a movement to the cliff, and a
preparation for the fall. Was not the first Fall of man enough ? Did it not
require a cost deadly enough of the Lord ? What now ? For such a fall as this,
there is no remedy. It is the removal of remedy, authentic, solely valid*3, empirically verified for
millennia which is crucial; and when this is done, by the nature of the case,
there is no more remedy!
NOTES
LOVE OF FREEDOM and of NEIGHBOUR
*1A Cf.
A Question of Gifts Section
VII, Wake Up World! …Ch. 3,
News 13,
53,
73,
113,
121
with Divine
Agenda Ch. 3,
and 8,
Galloping
Events Ch. 4. As seen here, the falls while not at all
restricted to Europe, are in that location both intense and sophisticated,
equipped with a cultural past that has more than any mere Hitler to exhibit, in
the direction of thought, and what has been wrought. Biblically, this is
intensely important for this predicted coming centre of terrestrial power,
though the time appointed for it is short (cf. Revelation 17:12). .
*1 The corrosive force in morals being
shown in areas of the EUs operation, is noted in the references of 1A above. It
is, in this, greatly aided in decline by the UN (cf. Mystery
of Iniquity).
They could then conveniently do it together, but to the benefit of neither
before Almighty God! Interesting in another phase of this apparent decline in
However it is
another aspect for
In
the Manchester
Guardian,
One
can readily understand a Europe which after Napoleon, Hitler and Mussolini, is
not bent on war, and a Germany which after 1870, 1914 and 1939, has learned
some lessons on the importance or otherwise of the aggressive option. Yet there
are times when defence becomes important, and concessions to replace it, merely
selfishness. If indeed, this is the
In
Perle’s view, dealing with defence, there are some bodies with which one cannot
deal; there is a very real axis of evil; atomic bombs are in the works with
some for whom aggression is no lost option, some who are not under due restraint,
and there are many nations harbouring terrorists: and so all is not well.
Certainly, all is
not well; and assuredly there are bodies so ideologically inclined that it is
folly to have ‘arrangements’ and co-operative work with them. This is so with
Islamic nations, whose Koran speaks words often shown on this site, to be
frankly physically militant with their religion, and
FOR their religion and its domination (cf. More Marvels Ch.4 and associated references). In
that, the USA has erred vastly, and perhaps critically. It is good to see that
at least the principle is realised! How savvy are some of the performances
which ‘assure success’ yet are doomed to fail, being unprincipled indeed, and
failing to consider the Chief Agent, God whose words are not in negotiated
treaties, but written these millennia, never varying by one millimetre either
in prescription or in fulfillment. To forget Russia and China, with India,
might be conceivable, but to forget God is a tragedy in the making. His words
are very clear (cf. *1A above).
*2
Here there arises a very important and simple point; but one quite crucial.
There is no NEED (even if need
spelled right) for this ‘respect’ for
other religions. What is needed is regard and yes, far more than that, love for
one’s neighbour, whether he be religious, or physical, mental or social in his
impediment.
One can wish to help, regard the
feelings and health of a neighbour and for that very reason, all the more seek
to give him or her the opportunity to be freed from whatever the malaise:
drugs, drink inebriating the mind, or false religion, intoxicating the spirit.
Since we do not need to be battered
with an opportunity, lest this very thing destroy its clarity, but may need
various efforts for all that, to help us realise our position when we are
wrong, or in physical peril, therefore freedom of expression is quite essential
and should be seen as such by all who are not dictatorial in aspiration. This
is where
So far from a lack of love being the
necessary conjunction of a concern at a false religion, the latter may increase
the obvious need for the former! When a doctor sees a patient near to death
from pneumonia, there is no apparent necessity why he or she should seek to
harm the patient. The more normal desire in such a case would be to HELP the
patient. But help ? It would not be to help the patient have a dip in an
ice-filled pool. That would not be helpful, but a craven substitute for
concern, mere acquiescence for peace’ sake. It would end in no good for any.
Thus integrity remains a first
essential in all social dealings. Only those so decisively lost that they
become mere puppets of evil, or of convenience, convention or culture, their
own or some other, could consider sacrificing it for such action. Why then is
it so simply assumed that religious difference MUST require RESPECT FOR THE
RELIGION!
Respect ? For the person, yes, and
hence a just concern; and for the liberty of the person, so that their peril
does not make us dictators or their apprentices, this too is needed. Christ is
a walking marvel in this: the combination of the blunt (if necessary), the
delicate (as required in tender circumstances), the caring, the helpful, the
unwavering expression of truth, the accompaniment, just as wisdom required for
the best result in the creation before his or her Creator.
All endeavour to judge all cases in one cast, when they are
often diametrically opposed in this very matter of love, and truth, is bound to
failure. It is simply governmental slackness, inexcusable in one or in all. Who
should respect error ? None. Who should accept governmental push as if it were
god ? None. Who however should seek the good even of those so astray that they
blaspheme ? Normally, all, to the extent that the way appears; and the heart
should desire it.
If in God’s judgment, the case passes
all measure, and the lost embraces lostness to the end, so be it. That is His
own affair. For us, we treat it, spiritual disease, very much as the physical
is treated. We seek with discretion but clarity, to help, where help we may. We
do NOT hate the sick person, but seek that person’s good; we do NOT love the
disease, respect it or foster it, speak well of it in any way, for it is an
evil suffered. We do not pretend that it is good.
We act in love and in truth. With
such things as these, in spiritual perspective, the world would be delivered
both from hypocrisy and dictatorial slackness. Without Christ, it is never
content for long in such a mode however; for only in Him is love perfected, and
only in Him is the heart cleansed. Those blind act to change man by social
engineering and political clout; but it simply does not work. Truth is never
found by force, or for that matter, political chicanery and presumption.
*3 You cannot tell the truth when you
deny by your system of thought, the very possibility of its existence - and,
incidentally, and equally, that of your own contention being true likewise.
Truth cannot be found by relativistic rumblings in an imaginary universe
without it, no, not even to express an opinion about it, which nevertheless those
so logically afflicted do with the normal zest of man, for after all, as made
in the image of God, for him truth is like mother’s milk. It is just that
usually, he does not in this, drink it.
Becoming by arbitrary willfulness,
thus, a poor starved changeling, he acts like it; and since this case is
entirely pathological, there is no virtue in it, and so man comes to look like
what his heart desires, the world his portrait! When however you use reason,
only God remains and only the Bible, not angst and its heirs of hyperactive and
mindless hope, or denuded soul in disillusion, inclined to careless violence in
its metaphysical cups.
For these considerations, see for
example SMR Chs. 1, 3, 10, with Little Things Ch. 5, It Bubbles … Ch. 9, News 122, TMR Chs. 1, 5, 7 and Barbs, Arrows and Balms 6
- 7, with Repent or Perish Chs. 2
and 7.