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| Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu |
2005.06.21 – You live in a sea of people and peoples. What you know of the world reaches you through the people around you and through the media — run by people.
Each of us swims along in this sea of people, unable to discern either the ebb and flow of the tide that elevates or lowers us; or the direction and strength of the current that is constantly pulling us along with all of those around us.
Just as timespace is relative in our universe, so those swimming around us through life are relative to us. We’re all unaware of the spinning of the earth, its hurtling through space in orbit around the sun, the speeding through deep space of our entire galaxy, and the outward acceleration as our universe expands. All of us together are oblivious to our rise or descent with the tide; undiscerning of our travel with the current. We look around at the people surrounding us, our environment, and we seem to be stationary.
But we’re not stationary at all. Technology isn’t the only change in our world. Nothing remains the same. Some changes, however, we don’t discern because of a relativistic perspective.
Ancient mariners became lost soon after losing sight of land until they learned to navigate by the stars. Today, GPS systems aid navigators when stars aren’t visible. Sophomoric youth march mindlessly into the future, with no moral compass, no GPS to orient their values on any absolute scale. Consult nearly any person who can remember 3-4 decades ago and their answer is likely to show some similarities: modern technologies have greatly enhanced life, but the damage to the environment is surpassed only by the damage hedonism has caused to our values. We still have poor, hungry and homeless; but, today, there is less excuse for it. There are still conflicts, but, today, the threats of annihilation worsen with every passing year.
If one dares defy the modern secular religion of relativism long enough to consult any absolute scale, alarm would be shocking and immediate. Today’s value system in the west has no superiority whatsoever to that of ancient ńŔăÉí! They don’t call homosexual sex sodomy for nothing. America’s value system has turned into a cesspool while Americans continue to swim around, felling a step above those around them but oblivious that the entire sea — in which Americans must swim — has circled the drain, spiraling down into the toilet of idolatry, immorality and – next – Islamic bloodthirst barbarism (look at your schoolbooks).
The only remedy for swimmers in this sea is a GPS system that locks onto an absolute scale. The very suggestion of “absolutism” gets the hackles up in modern secularists; and the reason is precisely because they are working toward the goal of making the modern world into a modern “Sodom”; where “anything goes” as long as you don’t injure someone else. That’s ignorantly myopic since, when the level of the sea descends into the toilet, perverts of every type begin to realize that it’s time for them to come out of the closet too. Is anyone keeping up with the news? The tendency toward increasing desensitivity to perversion is only an indirect injury; but it’s no less related to the general descent of the sea level into the toilet.
The Διαθηκη Καινη (NT), more than the Quran or Tor•âhꞋ, promotes rampant hedonism, since “Jesus” forgives every sin and its followers can, therefore, do whatever they like. This is the reason why followers of Quran and Tor•âhꞋ — each being an absolute compass — have an intractable conundrum with the relativism of modern western philosophy. The seriousness of this conundrum is encapsulated in 9/11 and the war against terror. Muslim terror is ultimately supported by the refusal of Muslims to accept modern western relativism with its inextricably related hedonism and culture of secular rejection of religious values.
The antithesis of Tor•âhꞋ “absolutism” is anti-Tor•âhꞋ (antinomian) relativism. The antithesis of the Author of Tor•âhꞋ is Sâ•tânꞋ. Any compromise of that message is a step away from Tor•âhꞋ and its Author, both absolutes, into relativism.
Thus, it is a war between the culture of Christian hedonism and the culture of Islamic absolutism. Notice, however, that these same factors define an identical conflict between Christian hedonism and Tor•âhꞋ absolutism. Islam and Judaism have far more in common than either Muslims or Jews appreciate.
The remedy is to start being alert to, and opposing,
every attack attempting to discredit absolutism as some kind of evil,
every suggestion of desensitizing people to accept relative values, and
every lowering of the tide (moral values) from the absolute standard of Tor•âhꞋ; first in the media and secondly in every fellow-swimmer around you.
Get ‘em to use the best compass or GPS — Tor•âhꞋ and, for the first time, get a handle on where they are and where they’re going.
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