Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:56:26 PM
I asked him what…was the number one threat facing our nation?...he answered, “Our mainstream media.” –Douglas MacKinnon
What’s going on in the media is just a symptom of the larger problem; this is the problem that faces all the nations of men because men universally have this problem in common. The issue is authority and man’s tendency toward autonomy and self-deception.
Re: http://ksky.townhall.com/columnists/DouglasMacKinnon/2009/12/22/a_warning_and_a_ray_of_hope_from_an_intelligence_operative
The Bible asserts that all men know God so inescapably and clearly from natural revelation that they are left with no defense for their unfaithful response to the truth about Him. ‘What can be known about God is plain within them because God made it plain to them... [being] clearly perceived from the created world, being intellectually apprehended from the things that have been made... so that they are without excuse’ [Romans 1:18-22]. Nevertheless, even as they are categorically depicted as ‘knowing God’, all men are portrayed in their unrighteousness as ‘holding down the truth’. They are suppressing what God has already shown them about Himself. As a result of hiding the truth from themselves, they neither glorify nor thank God, but instead become futile in their reasoning, undiscerning in their darkened hearts, and foolish in the midst of their professions of wisdom. Men are able to suppress what they very well know, confirming the words of the prophet, ‘The heart is deceitful above all things…’ [Jeremiah 17:9].
[from Bahnsen;
http://www.cmfnow.com/articles/pa207.htm ]
America was founded on the authority of the self-revealed God, meaning its laws and institutions of government are based on the principles of covenant and federalism derived from the Bible and practiced in the colonial churches and local governments. This is the heritage that produced form and freedom and is what Alexis de Tocqueville meant by this statement that “the Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other”.
Now this is the heritage that is being denied and exchanged for lawlessness and tyranny. The media culture is just a reflection of our shifting world view toward autonomy and self-deception. The only cure is a rejection of autonomy in the churches and a return to the origins of liberty found in the authority of the Bible. A spiritual awakening in the churches is the only means of reforming the culture.