(Charisma) – “Imagine a stained glass window of Jesus that has faded over centuries, so His face no longer appears. But the window still paints the room in rosy, pastel colors. So you decide that the real purpose of the window was decorative all along. It’s just that your generation is now advanced enough to see it. Christianity is just a superior mode of living. It helped us out compete other tribes, like the Muslims and the Buddhists. It made us … fitter to survive. So things seemed to Westerners in 1900, whose colonial empires ruled most of the world.” (John Zmirak, ‘Human Zoos’ Exhibits the Racist Toll of Darwinism;
The Stream, Nov. 19, 2018.) In examining the same theme of devalued religious input, Dr. Peter J. Leithart observes: “The remnants of Christendom within our political order (the president’s hand on the Bible—not the Qur’an—during the inauguration) are brittle remnants and provide neither standards of conduct nor accountability to those standards. O’Donovan writes that ‘the political doctrine that emerged from Christendom is characterized by a notion that government is responsible.'” Peter J. Leithart, “1 & 2 Kings” (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible). At some point, the light must be switched back on in America’s churches, illuminating the fact that Christians are the living body of the church, commissioned to play a role in the marketplace: READ MORE
