Yesterday I watched a video with someone pointing out that Kamala Harris's saying "I think you guys are at the wrong rally" to the "Jesus is King" yellers was very telling in light of Matthew 12:34: "for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."
Harris frequently has trouble articulating a coherent and nontrivial sentence, but that one came right out.
Today I randomly opened my Bible to Matthew 12. Matthew 12:34 is followed by warnings in verses 36 and 37 that we are going to have to give account for "every idle word".
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
