Opus 2025-225: Get My Drift?

I think most people would agree that the country as a whole tends to be drifting into chaos.  Our moorings have been thrown overboard and we are far from shore.  Or if you want to look at the metaphor differently, we have slipped your anchor and we are heading for the rocky shore.  Anyway you want to dice it we are losing ground on being the City on a Hill.

Someone brought up how the standard used to be that everyone who went to college would learn Latin, Greek, and possibly Hebrew.  Some might specialize in French.  The point is we would learn languages that kept us in touch with the principles of our civilization.  As my mind chewed up on this and I began to look for a correlation it seemed to me that the drift began when our educators started doing away with classic education.

The basic literature that has laid the groundwork for Western civilization is rooted in such things as the Bible and possibly Greek philosophy.  In actuality the two have been in conflict, but it is a conflict that has sharpened our edges.  We have benefitted from it as long as the teachings of the Bible have been foundational.  If Moses and Jesus came out on top Plato and Socrates might have something to offer as long as the filter worked properly.  We are moving towards a society that rejects the teachings in the Bible, and instead is going full time witrh the philosophy of Greece, Rome, and the pagans of the enlightenment.

This does not make for a bright future.  Pagan philosophy in Greece was deeply racist in the real meaning of the word not the woke virtue signaling.  If you were from a different city state then you were a lower level of human.  Slavery was the place of some classes of people.  Human sacrifice was not unknown.  Homosexuality was common.

When the good ideas of Greece were modified with the morals of the Hebrews and later Christians it made a very strong alloy but the alloy is being cut with cheap substitutes.  There is a reason why Christians and the church are a number one target.

Pray that you would be one of those that God is looking for so He will have an excuse to preserve our country.  

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