Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Friday, November 06, 2009 8:22:40 AM
We know what civil war looks like, but what does a cultural civil war look like? The civil war marked the death of the principle of federalism, and the new civil war is about its burial.
When consistently applied the Reformation model with its Biblical base in limited government under the rule of law with checks and balances on the fallen nature of man has resulted in personal freedoms, prosperity and order unsurpassed in history.
The Renaissance model guided by autonomous reason leads inevitably to authoritarian rule under arbitrary law. There is no basis for self-government and personal liberty in such a system.
What will be our authority for law and morality? Will we completely throw away our heritage based on the Reformation answer of Biblical authority? Or will we continue toward the deception of autonomous human reason and the belief in an impersonal beginning of a world without absolutes?
Most Americans want to be left alone, but the consequences of this exchange of authority are such that an oppressive authority will not tolerate any other authority. Either the law is king and liberty is possible, or wicked men will reign in tyranny. This is what the cultural war is about that is raging around you.
‘The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men’ [Psalm 12:8].