is there really a quiet war taking place?

THE WAR WE REALLY FACE: AND HOW TO WIN

If you can\\\'t see that our entire civilization is in a crisis, then you are a wounded victim of war. We are now engaged in the most serious war that the world has ever known. What follows is a three point checklist for understanding what is really at stake at the most critical period of human history:

To win any war, the three most necessary things to know are (1) that you are at war, (2) who your enemy is, and (3) what weapons or strategies can defeat him. You cannot win a war (1) if you simply sew peace on a battlefield, (2) if you fight civil wars against your allies, or (3) if you use the wrong weapons.

Here is a three point checklist for the culture wars. I assume you would not be reading a magazine called Crisis if you thought all was well. If you don\\\'t know that our entire civilization is in a crisis, I hope you had a nice vacation on the moon.

Many minds do seem moonstruck, however, blissfully unaware of the crisis-especially the \\\"intellectuals\\\", who are suppose to be the most on top of current events. I was dumbfounded to read a cover article in Time devoted to the question: Why is everything getting better? Why is life so good today? Why does everybody feel so satisfied about the quality of life?Time never questioned the assumption, it just wondered why the music on Titanic sounded so nice.

It turned out, on reading the article, that every single aspect of life that was mentioned, every single reason for life getting better, was economic. People are richer. End of discussion....

The is a scientific refutation of the Pig Philosophy: the statistical fact that suicide, the most in-your-face index of unhappiness, is directly proportionate to wealth. The richer you are, the richer your family is, and the richer your country is, the more likey it is that you will find life so good that you will choose to blow your brains apart.

Suicide among pre-adults has increased 5000% since the \\\"happy days\\\" of the \\\'50s. If suicide, especially among the coming generation, is not an index of crisis, nothing is.

Night is falling. What Chuck Colson has labeled \\\"a new Dark Ages\\\" is looming. And its Brave New World proved to be only a Cowardly Old Dream. We can see this now, at the end of the \\\"century of genocide\\\" that was chistened \\\"the Christian century\\\" at its birth.

We\\\'ve had prophets who warned us: Kierkeguard, in The Present Age; and Spengler, 100 years ago, in Brave New World, and C.S. Lewis, forty years ago, in the Abolition of Man, and above all our popes: Leo XIII and Pius IX and above all John Paul the Great, the greatest man in the world, the greatest man of the worst century. He had even more chutzpah than Ronald Regan, who dared to call Them \\\"the evil empire\\\": He called US: \\\"the culture of death\\\". That\\\'s our culture, and his, including Italy, with the lowest birth rate in the world, and Poland, which now wants to share in the rest of the West\\\'s abortion holocaust.

If the God of life does not respond to this culture of death with judgement, God is not God. If God does not honor the blood of the hundreds of millions of innocent victims, then the God of the Bible, the God of Israel, the God of orphans and widows, the Defender of defenseless, is a man-made myth, a fairy tale.

But is not God forgiving?

He is, but the unrepentant refuse forgiveness. How can forgiveness be received by a moral relativist who denies that there is anything to forgive except a lack of self-esteem, nothing to judge but \\\"judgementalism?\\\" How can a Pharisee or a pop psychologist be saved?

But is not God compassionate?

He is not compassionate to Moloch and Baal and Ashtaroth, and to Caananites who do their work who \\\"cause their children to walk through fire\\\". Perhaps your God is- the God of your dreams, the God of your \\\"religious preference\\\"-but not the God revealed in the Bible.

But is not the God of the Bible revealed most fully and finally in the New Testament rather than the Old? In sweet and gentle Jesus rather than wrathful and warlike Jehova?

The opposition is heretical: the old Gnostic-Manichaean-Marcionite heresy, as immortal as the demons who inspired it. For \\\"I and the Father are one\\\". The opposition between nice Jesus and nast Jehova denies the very essence of Christianity: Christs identity as the Son of God. Lets remember our theology and biology: Like Father, like Son.

But is not God a lover rather than a warrior?

No, God is a lover who is a warrior. The question fails to understand what love is, what the love that God is, is. Love is at war with hate, betrayal, selfishness, and all love\\\'s enemies. Love fights. Ask any parent. Yuppie-love, like puppy-love, may be merely \\\"compassion\\\" (the fashionable word today), but father-love and mother-love are war.

In fact, every page of the Bible bristles with spears, from Genesis 3 through Revelations 20. The road from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained is soaked in blood. At the very center of the story is a cross, a symbol of conflict if there ever was one. The theme of spiritual warfare is never absent in scripture, and never absent in the life and writtings of a single saint. But it is never present in the religious education of my \\\"Catholic\\\" students at Boston College. Whenever I speak of it, they are stunned and silent, as if they have entered another world. They have. They have gone past the warm fuzzies, the fur coats of psychology-disguised-as-religion, into a world where they meet Christ the King, not Christ the Kitten.

Welcome back from the moon, kids.

Where is the culture of death coming from?

Here. America is the center of the culture of death. America is the world\\\'s one and only superpower.

If I haven\\\'t shocked you already, I will now. Do you know what Muslims call us? They call us \\\"The Great Satan.\\\" And you know what I call them? I call them right.

But America has the most just, and moral, and wise, and biblical historical and constitutional foundation in all of the world. America is one of the most religious countries of the world. The Church is rich and free in America.

Yes. Just like ancient Israel. And if God still loves his Church in America, he will soon make it small and poor and persecuted, as he did to ancient Israel, so that he can keep it alive. If he loves us, he will prune us, and we will bleed, and the blood of the martyrs will be the seed of the Church again, and a spring will come-but not without blood. It never happens without blood, sacrafice, and suffering. The continuation of Christ\\\'s work-if it is really Christ\\\'s work and not a comfortable counterfeit-can never happen without the cross.

I don\\\'t mean merely Western civilization will die. That\\\'s a piece of trivia. I mean eternal souls will die. Billions of Ramons and Vladimirs and Janes and Tiffanies will go to Hell. That\\\'s what\\\'s at stake in this war: not just whether America will become a banana republic, or whether we\\\'ll forget Shakespear, or even whether some nuclear terrorist will incinetrate half of humanity, but whether our children and our children\\\'s children will see God forever. That\\\'s what\\\'s at stake in \\\"Hollywood versus America\\\". That\\\'s why we must wake up and smell the rotting souls.

Knowing we are at war is the first requirement for winning it.
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someone's views about the situation...

are they mere thoughts, is life mere thoughts?

It's true that losing souls is worst than greatest wars, its irony people treat most important thing in life as something ridiculous.
We can't know for sure if these days more souls are going to hell than ever but indications definitely say so.
Also, don't think situation is bad only in america.. there are about 6 billion souls living out of it equally in danger of real death.
Now whole western-oriented world is infected by seeds of evil coming from America but whole human race was evil since always..
Some muslims can call America great satan but hatred in name of religion and actions of those extremists are much much worse. (note: i'm not from usa)


[Edited on 8-11-2003 by Megaquad]

What we have to realize is that "God". "Allah", etc... is not going to come down to save us, or to stop the evil ones. It created this world, this universe, created all life and gave us the freedom of choice, the freedom to decide our own fates. We must stand up and change the world because nobody is going to do it for us.

The greatest people in history are not lazy, they dont stand aside while injustice reigns over people. They are the ones who stand up with blade and rifle in hand, or with voice, and stand against the corruption with iron will.

That isn't what my book says, and as God has already proven that His Word given to us through the Bible is true, I'll believe Him over you, if you don't mind, daeldron. No offense.

Hmm the funny thing is that religion has become Beurocratic, who are you going to trust when you can trust no one? But in the long run we all must decide for ourselves.