Well-written and coherent. Virtue is a nearly forgotten quality in modern life, while honour even more so - it is perhaps the most alien of qualities to a modern liberal bourgeois mind.
With Christianity infusing society with these qualities, when faith was stripped of its position in society, these elements that were carried alongside it also ceased to be present in society, and no amount of substitute activities of ideology or ethnic fervour coupd replace it.
Our world is training the hearts of the young to love the worthless and to disdain the eternal. While the watchmen cry out and some have begun to reject the institutions of corrupt thought we can only pray for mercy that enough hearts will be changed that their minds may be set aright. For the author has given us the last chapter and we can only faithfully take the next step, praying for wisdom, until the trumpet blows and all is made new.
I recently watched "A Reluctant Convert", the story of CS Lewis and his journey to Christianity. I was struck by the classical education he pursued, my own education through the 70's and what passes for current "education/indoctrination". The moral framework I was presented with through family, Church and a discussion of Classic Literature in my school work, I guess, is nonexistent now in any curriculum either high school or college. I started to despair, but then I look at TPUSA and a YouTube channel where a high school boy IS joyfully reading classic literature and I have found hope. Creation is oriented towards God's moral truth because He created it and us. I remain hopeful, joyous and oriented towards pursuing honor and virtue.
Thank you for this wonderful article. It is like CS Lewis's beam of light in the dark shed. It is to be "walked into" and enjoyed.
Well-written and coherent. Virtue is a nearly forgotten quality in modern life, while honour even more so - it is perhaps the most alien of qualities to a modern liberal bourgeois mind.
With Christianity infusing society with these qualities, when faith was stripped of its position in society, these elements that were carried alongside it also ceased to be present in society, and no amount of substitute activities of ideology or ethnic fervour coupd replace it.
Our world is training the hearts of the young to love the worthless and to disdain the eternal. While the watchmen cry out and some have begun to reject the institutions of corrupt thought we can only pray for mercy that enough hearts will be changed that their minds may be set aright. For the author has given us the last chapter and we can only faithfully take the next step, praying for wisdom, until the trumpet blows and all is made new.
If only Christians would not cower behind prophecy, then all could be fixed.
I recently watched "A Reluctant Convert", the story of CS Lewis and his journey to Christianity. I was struck by the classical education he pursued, my own education through the 70's and what passes for current "education/indoctrination". The moral framework I was presented with through family, Church and a discussion of Classic Literature in my school work, I guess, is nonexistent now in any curriculum either high school or college. I started to despair, but then I look at TPUSA and a YouTube channel where a high school boy IS joyfully reading classic literature and I have found hope. Creation is oriented towards God's moral truth because He created it and us. I remain hopeful, joyous and oriented towards pursuing honor and virtue.
Thank you for this wonderful article. It is like CS Lewis's beam of light in the dark shed. It is to be "walked into" and enjoyed.