For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face-to-face: now I
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1st
Corinthians 13:12.
Part 3 – What’s Wrong with Liberal Thinking
Well – let’s make sense of the world today, shall we? I’ll
start picking at the tangled wad of yarns at this end and you start teasing at
it on your end and we’ll have it unknotted in no time. Not.
Things are in quite a muddle; the Prince of Lies (not our
president, but Lucifer) is hard at work and it’s the human tendency to gloss
over details, call a spade a terrain
relocation device, and slather every uncomfortable truth with coat after
coat of varnish, so the job of putting all the puzzle pieces together in
logical order is a challenge.
We’ve been talking about the faulty assumptions at the base
of liberal thinking. This week I’d like to explore one of the secondary
premises that fog our national bandwidth. If one starts with the self-refuting
statement that there is no absolute truth and you add to that an evolutionary
mindset, one comes to a third premise – that God is just a human idea – some
fanciful conceit we developed to soften the edges of reality, some elaborate
means mankind invented in order to tackle the vagaries of human misbehavior.
The evolutionist explanation for religious belief is a
bottom-up account. From paramecium to fish to tadpole to lizard to bird to
horse to ape to Neanderthal to Christian – just a natural progression. (Why
they assume that Christian thought is suddenly a turn for the worst is beyond
me.)
