They’ve been saying Christianity won’t last the century for centuries. Much of this essay could easily be used to argue the woke stuff won’t last (decline of happiness as a result of the sexual revolution, diversity over function doesn’t work, etc.) and that either the current young generation or one or two after them will return to the faith after seeing the train wreck of wokeness.
There’s also the matter that outside of the English speaking world, and more specifically outside Europe and the Anglosphere, Christianity is growing. This wouldn’t be the first time Christian lands fell into disrepair and needed to be re-evangelized, nor would it be the first time Christianity dealt with a weird sect that rose in Christian lands.
I’m not saying we should bury our heads in the sand, it’s just that I do not see this truly replacing Christianity in the long run.
Stunning and convincing indictment of the Great Awokening, which from where I sit not far from Puritan Jonathan Edwards' stomping grounds has taken over every institution with DIE indoctrination, from town governments to churches to schools, demanding absolute conformity. Google Erica Faginsky-Stark to see how the heresy of defending women's sports led to the highly competent (by all accounts, I don't know her) educator being denied two jobs in school districts. A local minister even testified against her right to hold a dissenting view, shades of Anne Hutchinson who was expelled by the Puritans for daring to express her own opinions. (However much Christianity benefited women comparatively, it has also routinely silenced women's voices.) Much to reflect on in this essay but it is also time to act. A generation of highly impressionable children are being taught to see race in poisonous ways and are being misled with confusing and corrosive ideas about sex and gender. Looking forward to future essays and calls to action! Thank you!
Another great essay. As an atheist it has always been an enormous frustration the complete lack of understanding that atheists have shown to the important function that religion plays in human life. As if a mere rational disproof of God's existence is enough to rid us religion. The function that religion serves has never been understood by most atheists. I suspect it because individuals can live without it, but not society it seems.
The managerial class is not facing their own “Taylor Time” well, meanwhile we competent essential workers are the USSA defiant proles of the late 80s.
The PMC OTOH is finding out that PMC /=KGB and customer service ain’t the @ss kissing contest when it gets to Murican soviet worker (me🤣).
Don’t know if this is quite on thread but observing with amusement the managerial class coming to grips with competent “essential workers” proletarians like myself... as in...
... we’ll fix it when it’s fixed, we’ll assign someone when available and when there’s a need based on priority.
This is quite a shock for the YELP online ratings managerial class of today, where everyone exists for 3 decades to cater to YOU, such poor service!! We really need to go over this particular case on the monthly conference call.
That and I’m routinely getting disconnected when annoying tw@ts but especially the outsourced 3d world types call and I know it’s 💩 but their plan is to be relentless. Too bad, fewer and fewer of we competent left and the person you’re escalating to hasn’t touched equipment in years or decades, IF he’s even in his same field, as opposed to management.
Oh and no it wasn’t a good idea to fire most people, and no the 3d world can’t replace us.
“Theory based on the celebration of subversion and deviance turns out to be disastrous for making things work.”
Or providing security, food, water, power, or doing violence to extract the necessities and enforcing compliance.
Now in some countries the police will follow any orders, but not America nor legally or Constitutionally do they have to follow any orders, especially those patently unlawful.
IRL coward and absent leadership are helpful in avoiding disaster and disgrace.
I am Steve Watson; I'm a biblioholic. While I LOVE your bibliography; my wallet hates you, Lorenzo. :-)
This series is a 21st Century Must Read. We have to map the hole-shaped hole before we think about filling it; lest "God" or the "Dialectic" glom on it again. Remember, heroin was once the "cure" for morphine addiction.
Your topic sounded interesting so I started to read today's article. I'm a little rushed, so I didn't read the whole article, but in the first few paragraphs it seems you have little understanding of biblical Christianity, although you may be just lost in the weeds. I would even go so far as to suggest (from my minuscule dive into the essay) that you miss the whole point of Christ and the Christian culture that has grown from the Messiah of Israel. Certainly, many diverse views within that culture are valid even though many points of disagreement might exist. I hope you will keep thinking and expressing your thoughts about what I think we can agree is a fallen world--one that isn't just not as perfect as it might be, but broken; not the way it's supposed to be, The key fact that defines Christianity is the (compound, multifaceted) truth that one particular man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, lived, died (thoroughly dead), and rose back to life. You probably have a copy already of the accounts of eye witnesses and contemporary historians, and I challenge you, before you write much more, to read their accounts, known today as the major part of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Sorry that I may sound hostile, but that is not my intent at all.
LW and HD if I can recommend Chris Bray on the Performative Artists of Woke ... no one talks that way in private. Religious people will usually work religion into the conversation sooner or later. It’s the center of their life, more or less. The Jews for example will be very quiet about it even if asked, but wearing the skullcap. And so on...
The Ukraine war is ending, you know because military tribunals only happens when the deployments or wars over … 🤣 the Article 15s happen at the end when the cowards have no need of you and wish to assert power. Every time.
Zelensky replacing heads of military recruitment centers over corruption allegations | The Hill
I see a bit of a shitfight has broken out in the comments. Please try to keep it civil so Lorenzo doesn't wake up to a binfire.
[Remember, I'm in the UK, which is why the various articles on here are published when they are; Lorenzo is in South-Eastern Australia.]
They’ve been saying Christianity won’t last the century for centuries. Much of this essay could easily be used to argue the woke stuff won’t last (decline of happiness as a result of the sexual revolution, diversity over function doesn’t work, etc.) and that either the current young generation or one or two after them will return to the faith after seeing the train wreck of wokeness.
There’s also the matter that outside of the English speaking world, and more specifically outside Europe and the Anglosphere, Christianity is growing. This wouldn’t be the first time Christian lands fell into disrepair and needed to be re-evangelized, nor would it be the first time Christianity dealt with a weird sect that rose in Christian lands.
I’m not saying we should bury our heads in the sand, it’s just that I do not see this truly replacing Christianity in the long run.
Stunning and convincing indictment of the Great Awokening, which from where I sit not far from Puritan Jonathan Edwards' stomping grounds has taken over every institution with DIE indoctrination, from town governments to churches to schools, demanding absolute conformity. Google Erica Faginsky-Stark to see how the heresy of defending women's sports led to the highly competent (by all accounts, I don't know her) educator being denied two jobs in school districts. A local minister even testified against her right to hold a dissenting view, shades of Anne Hutchinson who was expelled by the Puritans for daring to express her own opinions. (However much Christianity benefited women comparatively, it has also routinely silenced women's voices.) Much to reflect on in this essay but it is also time to act. A generation of highly impressionable children are being taught to see race in poisonous ways and are being misled with confusing and corrosive ideas about sex and gender. Looking forward to future essays and calls to action! Thank you!
Another great essay. As an atheist it has always been an enormous frustration the complete lack of understanding that atheists have shown to the important function that religion plays in human life. As if a mere rational disproof of God's existence is enough to rid us religion. The function that religion serves has never been understood by most atheists. I suspect it because individuals can live without it, but not society it seems.
The managerial class is not facing their own “Taylor Time” well, meanwhile we competent essential workers are the USSA defiant proles of the late 80s.
The PMC OTOH is finding out that PMC /=KGB and customer service ain’t the @ss kissing contest when it gets to Murican soviet worker (me🤣).
Don’t know if this is quite on thread but observing with amusement the managerial class coming to grips with competent “essential workers” proletarians like myself... as in...
... we’ll fix it when it’s fixed, we’ll assign someone when available and when there’s a need based on priority.
This is quite a shock for the YELP online ratings managerial class of today, where everyone exists for 3 decades to cater to YOU, such poor service!! We really need to go over this particular case on the monthly conference call.
That and I’m routinely getting disconnected when annoying tw@ts but especially the outsourced 3d world types call and I know it’s 💩 but their plan is to be relentless. Too bad, fewer and fewer of we competent left and the person you’re escalating to hasn’t touched equipment in years or decades, IF he’s even in his same field, as opposed to management.
Oh and no it wasn’t a good idea to fire most people, and no the 3d world can’t replace us.
If we suddenly get disconnected...
Learn to do it yourself.
Oh and grow turnips.
I do.
“Theory based on the celebration of subversion and deviance turns out to be disastrous for making things work.”
Or providing security, food, water, power, or doing violence to extract the necessities and enforcing compliance.
Now in some countries the police will follow any orders, but not America nor legally or Constitutionally do they have to follow any orders, especially those patently unlawful.
IRL coward and absent leadership are helpful in avoiding disaster and disgrace.
I am Steve Watson; I'm a biblioholic. While I LOVE your bibliography; my wallet hates you, Lorenzo. :-)
This series is a 21st Century Must Read. We have to map the hole-shaped hole before we think about filling it; lest "God" or the "Dialectic" glom on it again. Remember, heroin was once the "cure" for morphine addiction.
Your topic sounded interesting so I started to read today's article. I'm a little rushed, so I didn't read the whole article, but in the first few paragraphs it seems you have little understanding of biblical Christianity, although you may be just lost in the weeds. I would even go so far as to suggest (from my minuscule dive into the essay) that you miss the whole point of Christ and the Christian culture that has grown from the Messiah of Israel. Certainly, many diverse views within that culture are valid even though many points of disagreement might exist. I hope you will keep thinking and expressing your thoughts about what I think we can agree is a fallen world--one that isn't just not as perfect as it might be, but broken; not the way it's supposed to be, The key fact that defines Christianity is the (compound, multifaceted) truth that one particular man, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, lived, died (thoroughly dead), and rose back to life. You probably have a copy already of the accounts of eye witnesses and contemporary historians, and I challenge you, before you write much more, to read their accounts, known today as the major part of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Sorry that I may sound hostile, but that is not my intent at all.
LW and HD if I can recommend Chris Bray on the Performative Artists of Woke ... no one talks that way in private. Religious people will usually work religion into the conversation sooner or later. It’s the center of their life, more or less. The Jews for example will be very quiet about it even if asked, but wearing the skullcap. And so on...
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisbray/p/an-animal-you-only-see-in-zoos?r=91o16&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I’ll add this is an utterly negative “faith”, its “prayers” are denunciations almost exclusively.
What is the source for the idea that Christianity opposes adoption? I've done a bit of searching and haven't found anything.
Here’s the State of California and much of the nation:
Children are fair game.
For anything.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisbray/p/the-license-and-the-entry-ticket?r=91o16&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
O/T
The Ukraine war is ending, you know because military tribunals only happens when the deployments or wars over … 🤣 the Article 15s happen at the end when the cowards have no need of you and wish to assert power. Every time.
Zelensky replacing heads of military recruitment centers over corruption allegations | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4148808-zelensky-military-recruitment-centers-corruption-allegations/