The Stupefication of America

In a Dec. 8, 2008 post, Pastor Brian Carpenter writes:

The Reformed version of the Christian faith, with its emphasis on reason coupled with its humble attitude towards the abilities of human faculties of reason, makes the best education of all. Add to that the tendency towards self discipline and delayed gratification inherent in activities like Sabbath observance, and you have the basic tools that catapulted Western Culture to the pinnacle of the world's various systems.

We, in America, are faced with two situations which are barrelling down the highway of time and are almost upon us. Our nation and our culture are almost totally morally and intellectually bankrupt. A nation of dunces can only be safe in a world of dunces, and the world is emphatically not made up of dunces. Sooner or later, somehow and some way, we will fall. Perhaps very soon. Christian people must effect a strategic and selective withdrawal from this failing culture or continue to be conditioned by it and sucked down with it. Think it hasn't happened to the church already? Two words: Joel Osteen. And this, of course. (It puts one more in mind of Baal worship than Christian worship, doesn't it?)

Read the entire article here.

We might derive a fair amount of historical perspective from an article in the Oct. 31, 2008 edition of The Rocky Mountain News.

I s'pose I might as well aggravate the sensibilities of all you non-readers with an additional 'offering'. Dr. Carl Truman has written this somewhat lengthy article, Reckoning With The Past in an Anti-Historical Age. Certainly, readers rejoice!