You can't earn it, you can't strive for it, it's not a reward for virtue...it's something you glimpse in the corner of your eye until one day you're up to your neck in it.
Overnight I watched a Sky News AU documentary titled; " Are We Ready for War " Although produced in 2023, It was still stunningly eye- opening for me and I believe so for you.
Stream and view "Are We Ready for War?"
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The British and Foreign Bible Society recently published a report titled "The Quiet Revival", which highlights surprising growth in church attendance in England and Wales, particularly among young adults.
Post-modern Christianity is just as difficult to lock down in a concise definition as post-modernism itself. What started in the 1950s in architecture as a reaction to modernist thought and style was soon adopted by the art and literary world in the 1970s and 1980s. The Church didn’t really feel this effect until the 1990s. This reaction was a dissolution of “cold, hard fact” in favor of “warm, fuzzy subjectivity.” Think of anything considered post-modern, then stick Christianity into that context and you have a glimpse of what post-modern Christianity is.
Post-modern Christianity falls into line with basic post-modernist thinking. It is about experience over reason, subjectivity over objectivity, spirituality over religion, images over words, outward over inward. Are these things good? Sure. Are these things bad? Sure. It all depends on how far from biblical truth each reaction against modernity takes one’s faith. This, of course, is up to each believer. However, when groups form under such thinking, theology and doctrine tend to lean more towards liberalism.
For example, because experience is valued more highly than reason, truth becomes relative. This opens up all kinds of problems, as this lessens the standard that the Bible contains absolute truth, and even disqualifies biblical truth as being absolute in many cases. If the Bible is not our source for absolute truth, and personal experience is allowed to define and interpret what truth actually is, a saving faith in Jesus Christ is rendered meaningless.
There will always be “paradigm shifts” in thinking as long as mankind inhabits this present earth, because mankind constantly seeks to better itself in knowledge and stature. Challenges to our way of thinking are good, as they cause us to grow, to learn, and to understand. This is the principle of Romans 12:2 at work, of our minds being transformed. Yet, we need to be ever mindful of Acts 17:11 and be like the Bereans, weighing every new teaching, every new thought, against Scripture. We don’t let our experiences interpret Scripture for us, but as we change and conform ourselves to Christ, we interpret our experiences according to Scripture. Unfortunately, this is not what is happening in circles espousing post-modern Christianity.
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To be a mother is considered to be a 'poor' and ‘unworthy’ role or occupation relative to those roles of Hollywood re- imagined females. Of course, this is the expected outcome of the momentum of the.'60's sexual revolution.' Since the 3rd wave Feminism, such re-definition has been more assertive with the passing decades.
To be the softer, gentler, more nurturing, robustly supportive feminine type of traditional woman is to be "weak and irrelevant."
To be weak and irrelevant. is not to be an 'integral' part of post-modern Femininity. Neo-female sexuality is increasingly used as a personal active advertisement and as a tool to be ' switched off or on' as required by the female 'activist.' Now female physical beauty with acquired masculine traits is being extolled as higher than the beauty of traditional feminine physicality and character. The outcome of this movement had gained mileage among the young and further exacerbated the decline of feminine virtues and personal character development.
This 21st century Femininity has targeted the traditional masculine role .Labeling traditional Masculinity as toxic and irrelevant is woke-ness personified. Unless the male is substantially subservient to the more demanding and dominating female, the man is substantively outside 'usefulness' for most Western societies. Such ideology is 'sold' increasingly to younger women.
Subtle dark forces are transforming, exchanging and subverting the normal roles of males and females.
However, such relegation of males to increasingly
'narrower' roles in Western cultures is disadvantageous to ‘ordinary masculine’
men. With the far future rise of AGI autonomous humanoids of the
revolution of the 21st century, traditionally male occupations will
be replaced by such robotic advances, further exacerbating the downward spiral
of manhood.
Classic philosopher/king intellectuals would be banned in the current global sexually charged ideological climate. While the breakdown of norms of sexuality continues with the maintenance of socially constructed categories beyond that of male and female binaries, It is too early to tell whether US Trumpian legislation will halt and reverse such dark and delusional environments.
While gender dysphoria is similar to the previous tom- boys of earlier generations, it is noted that a tiny portion of females go ahead and transform with so- called' gender- affirming' care into boys. So- called de-transitioners are being harassed by more vocal dissenters to silence these females whose lives and bodies have been irrevocably altered by chemicals and surgery. The UK Cass report findings against the unscientific but widely adopted model of gender treatment is being ignored and pushed aside by elements of complicit medical and other health practitioners.
This situation aims to break- up the family unit as the main source of parental guidance, stability and upbringing in the socialisation of each new generation. This reversal of traditional gender roles is being pushed by Big Legacy Media, Big Money and Big Tech and, to a large degree, by the LGBTQ+ Agenda.
There is much evidence to support the remarkable survey findings that since the 60's sexual revolution there are currently more younger men waiting for marriage while younger women unfortunately sport a 'high body count' and marry less. The semi-reversal of the reversal. Evidence that many of these men are casting off such new, narrower 21 century interpretations of maleness abounds.Is there a male-led movement pushing beyond this so- called 21-century redefinition of classic maleness? It seems so.
Meanwhile, the ever-promoting influencers of gender dysphoria and political confusion brought on by left-leaning and progressive atheistic policy-makers and socialistic organisations are disrupting the status quo.. The left-leaning LGBTQ+ Agenda has co-opted the many symbols and practices of traditional Western culture since the beginning of the 20th century's hippie revolutionary cry of make love, not war. True,necessary social change hijacked into deadly confused game of socialistic and politically averse- ideological regimes
Totalitarian regimes have taken advantage of the societal woes of the West by cleverly promoting socialism, progressiveness and anti-Christian rhetoric coupled with some highly biased social media,immoral activism and techno-utopianism, transforming the youth of the Western world into the me-intoxicated, poly-amorous, anti-wrinkle, anti-heroic generation.
Can the West rescue itself from the decline of its core values and norms based on the ancient Judeo-Christian foundation?
Opinions vary from an inevitable crash to the remarkable, encouraging resurgence of Christianity seen mainly in the Asian, African and in Middle Eastern countries!
While the news of the above is surprisingly positive.
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thanks to the enduring power and support of Christ Jesus' earnest followers, who are praying with faith and placing their lives, money and efforts at real risk into the supernatural grand scheme or exhaustive, but gentle, voluntary geo- shaping of God the Father. The Crux of the Message is...
All is going to plan.
(originally posted March 2024)
