Twisted Fruit without the Root Pt 2

Twisted Fruit without the Root Pt 2

This episode continues with more examples of “the old Christian virtues gone mad” – twisted fruit like:

• Unconditional love becoming acceptance/celebration of anything someone believes or desires; 
• The Golden Rule becoming treating others the way they want to be treated; 
• Authenticity morphing into the demolition of Normal; 
• Equality becoming equity based on forceful envy; 
• Human Dignity/Exceptionalism morphing into dehumanization; 
• Freedom TO twisting into Freedom FROM. 

We show how “our culture’s post-Christianity and its post-liberalism go hand in hand.” When the Christian roots of our western culture become twisted enough, we end up with a “Christian birthed humanism sufficiently weaned from the Christian root of love, forgiveness and redemption,” excessive and “extreme… unrestrained by the Christian insight into human imperfection.” Bonnie Kristian https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2023/november-web-only/john-gray-liberalism-new-leviathans.html?utm_source=CT%20Books%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=216978&utm_content=14921&utm_campaign=email&vgo_ee=WX5hYv7Yo%2BGEEcm6ECvVfXZILnk95sbAhcQo0A75wZTyvUhcFhszj1c%3D%3AXatNzl525AWidN%2B590vnVU1S6cu4dsZU  

Pope John Paul II predicted “a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.” https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/12/the-new-agnosticism 

We raise the question of ‘What should we do?’ 

When we see that as the Christian roots are further and further cut out of our culture, that the good fruit that has made western liberal democratic culture, although far, far from perfect, still the best the human race has achieved, is being twisted even beyond recognition, how should we respond?