Wayward wolf not welcomed home | StarTribune.com

Wayward wolf not welcomed home | StarTribune.com

Upon her return to the cage this wolf was attacked by her two sisters. Scientists say it was because they wanted to 'increase their rank' among the pack. When this wolf left, she was a female leader, but when she was brought back home, exhausted and worn-down, she was attacked.

This reminds me of humans today. Bathed in a consistent world-view of materialism and Darwinian evolution, our culture is gradually becoming more animal-like. Morality is just an annoyance when acknowledged, or it is simply irrelevant. Television shows are formed on the premise of stabbing your once-loved ones and former friends in the back just to 'increase your rank' in the pack. More and more, the secular-humanist world-view that ignores the inherent dignity in other humans increases.

Of course morality and love of others is not gone--I suggest that it is less useful, and so it is commonly brushed away. People are tools now and steps to use to get somewhere else. 'Since there is no God, there can be no justice against my apathy towards you' seems to be a statement of truth. When morality is not a real thing but something that culture makes up, you get wolves attacking each other.

If I were the Devil

If I were the Devil. . .

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's

effort, instead of God's blessings;

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of

the other way around;

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to

leadership;

I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;

I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent

machines to make it convenient;

I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals

are valued more than human beings;

I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was

grounds for a law suit;

I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I

would get sports heroes to advertise them;

I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the

mind of every family member for my agenda;

I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation.

I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family

crumbles, so does the nation;

I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and

movie screens, and I would call it art;

I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that there

lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who

call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically

correct;

I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and

the Bible is for the naive;

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is

not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are good enough to get by;

Hmmm...I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.
(Paul Harvey)

When No One is Looking--Thoughts on Family

Every single one of us has opinion on family, because every one of us came from one.  I know my family was one that many would not be able to relate to 'cause people just didn't get beat up and verbally assaulted on a regular basis like we did in our family.  And now, we live scattered around the countryside, far outside of a quick drive for mom's cooking.  One generation before ours was equally scattered and equally, if not more, abused.  But the family hasn't always been like this.

Holy Subversion by Crossway Pubs.

Holy Subversion from Crossway

For my fellow believers, I am intrigued by the idea of this book so I wanted to share.
Happy Friday!