I'm reading Michael's Crichton's nonfiction book about his medical school years and travels, and it's clear that he had a similar character as a young man as of a number of other atheists I've read about: enamored of science, scornful of religious beliefs despite never seriously considering the possibility of God's existence, and zealously pursuing sex.
I was trying to explain to someone recently how the "sexual revolution" and the social changes that have resulted from it have become the core of Democrats' appeal to voters. They are basically marketing themselves as the Sex and Love Party.
The assumption is that science and modern medicine have liberated everyone from the need to follow the constraints laid down in the Bible or in longstanding traditions. And if they think of God, it is only about God's love, by which they justify having more sex, and never about God's severity.
Well, there are about 1600 new cases of syphilis in Minnesota a year now, and the state has positioned itself to be the abortion capital of the Midwest, despite there supposedly being more safe and effective forms of contraception available than ever before.
There are also a lot of single mothers, many of them struggling with poverty, insecurity, and abusive relationships, which impact their children as well.
And so on.
You reap what you sow.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
