Is Christian Culture Possible?

[Michie]

The Constitution of the United States is held by most to be the best instrument of human flourishing man has ever conceived, but there's an elephant in the room.

I am looking at a couple of random lines lifted from a bleak little poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., written at a sad time near the end of a short and, by his own reckoning, unfulfilled life. He was quite mistaken about that, by the way. His last words, whispered aloud about how happy he was to be going home to God, certainly put that misconception to rest.

Nevertheless, the lines he wrote were, without a doubt, an expression of bitter lamentation, advising us that because “The times are nightfall,” we must remain ever vigilant, on high alert in order to watch and see how “their light grows less.” Indeed, says Hopkins, on all sides we are beset by forces that threaten to put the lights out altogether, leaving the world impacted by the sheer dark. “The times are winter,” he tells us; thus, he summons us to see what he sees, which is “a world undone: They waste, they wither worse…”

Perhaps this is what Sir Edward Grey, England’s foreign secretary, had in mind when, on the eve of the Great War, he dolefully announced, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” Less than a year later, all the lamps having gone out, Winston Churchill would declare in a letter to his wife that, “a wave of madness has swept the mind of Christendom.”

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Is Christian Culture Possible?

The Constitution of the United States is held by most to be the best instrument of human flourishing man has ever conceived, but there’s an elephant in the room.

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[Hoping2]

I wish the writers of the constitution had been wise enough to see how their work would be transformed into an instrument of unrighteousness.
They should have enshrined its descent as from God, and its base in righteousness.
Now, it gives man the "right" to do almost every evil under the sun.
The writers would be appalled.

 

[Sal Mercurio]

I wish the writers of the constitution had been wise enough to see how their work would be transformed into an instrument of unrighteousness.
They should have enshrined its descent as from God, and its base in righteousness.
Now, it gives man the "right" to do almost every evil under the sun.
The writers would be appalled.

The writers of the constitution are not at fault for the worlds dilemma, Adam is. With or without "OUR" constitution, man fell....end of story. BUT having said that, God, of His own free will, by His own name which is above all else, CHOSE to take our place for the fall and redeem us with His own blood. This world and this heaven will pass away but Gods word shall never pass away, nor His promises, nor His accomplishments through the suffering of the cross and resurrection from the dead for our sake, above all.

The constitution is not what culture is made of. Culture is made from what God judges...the hearts of men. Like the Gospel, there is no secular law enforcement for violating Jesus comandments. You can choose to live as a Church community and practice God's moral values, or you can live in a secular humanistic community and become a lunitic. You get to choose eternal life or eternal condemnation. If you choose life, know that God has prepared a place for you, and if you choose eternal condemnation, know that God has prepared a place for you. Both places are prepared in perfect fashion to match your choices. God won't let you down.