There is a survival of life in the jungle that is breathtakingly exotic and abundant, that resonates with sounds, colours and smells we may equate with song, beauty, perfume. But there is a darker violent aspect of survival in the jungle that our imagination is perhaps not so eager to articulate in the same glowing terms.
We have inherited a language full of peculiar words, to compensate for this contradiction of aspect, which we use to blur the contradictions, to elevate our identity in glowing terms using abstract words like love and beauty.
The jungle is not beautiful at all though, it is a chaotic, mechanistic life system, where the survival of the fittest is the unwritten law. Where atavisms pre-determine the selections made within a short span of life reducing choice to nothing more meaningful than the maths of probability. Where life has no meaning other than to function as a living organism to serve no purpose other than being available as a product in the automated food chain and as a protector of territory.
This description is not dissimilar from the life of modern man where another jungle exists that has been created by a military industrial mindset directed by the archetypal territorial warrior who sees thousands of souls as expendable. Expendable in an economic system that maintains a food chain for the rich and just chains for the poor. Here people are statistics, whose probability of importance is expressed as a computation in documents that are sexed up to preserve the flimsy appearance of transition from beast to human, from a green jungle to a concrete replica. The Iraq dossier is part of humanism's attempt to re-classify the wild animal as human. How insulting to God it is that animals should have the audacity to call themselves 'human'.
The difference between jungle law and cultural law is a difference in language only. Sophistry barely makes any difference. So much so we use the language of art like the language of law to crudely justify behaving like animals so that a distinction can be made between the symbols that set us apart. But it is a crude distinction because the language relies on crude and meaningless abstraction.
This confusion has no lasting beauty and no future.
A consequence of identifying with nature, of looking for an identity based on obscure symbols and indefinite origins, is the emergence of a compensating definitive language, a legal system, to distinguish humans from animals, to bring order out of chaos ‘ordo ab chao’ by codifying behaviour, that makes the transition from animal to human, from sinner to saint, from wild instinct to consciousness of the divine, a visible proof of difference.
In the process new weapons also emerge to combat evil, to combat those who resist the transition, and the animal not only completely fails to articulate the divine mystery of being human but regresses to a state that is an embarrassment to the whole of creation. The regress is told as a narrative of ancient history which repeats itself ad infinitum into the modern age. We have inherited the conflict of personality in the form of ancient customs, beliefs and practices, which State and Church conform to with predictable outcomes.
As a consequence we think, we pray, we speak and we act out a language of the wild, which has no beauty.
But God who is always beautiful in Christ, holds out a hand of salvation and hope that one day we would conform to an identity that is true, which He has shown us personally in the life and words of Jesus Christ.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Monday, June 23, 2008
The science of unbelief
It never ceases to amaze me how much time people spend creating an identity for themselves out of a set of ideas rooted in the quasi-intellectual narrative of science. There is a scientific approach to everything these days, including toward constructing business models for exploiting the weak to make the world a playground for despots and tyrants. Behind every scientific technique of exploitation and domination one can see the indelible influence of the psycho brigade, whose construction of reality wobbles precariously on a pinhead of a premise that the narrative of cultural musings and theories is more reliable than the narrative of Jesus Christ.
Great institutions hand out certificates to their indoctrinated siblings in a vain hope that pieces of paper will equip people with enough knowledge, and therefore sufficient material means, to construct a meaningful identity regulated and maintained by self – the very core of sin and idolatry.
Sciences that work toward the goal of seducing mankind into believing it has supreme authority over its own environment and has the power to be a master of its own destiny and its future are deluded. It is a delusion back dated to the day when consciousness of God was influenced by the science of doubting the obvious, when the prototype spiritual man Adam, doubted the obvious truth that his existence was neither man–made, nor an environmental accident, but a generous gift of God. It’s all right to be a free thinker but it’s daft to use free thinking as a means to die in your sin.
I am amazed how people spend their lives enslaved to the treadmill of constructing an identity based on the lie that nothing occurs after physical death, that God is not going to do what He has always promised. The illogical belief that life will convert to oblivion has become a global trade in the certification of atheism; and along with it the certification of nihilism where the definition of right and wrong is left to the vagaries of a ruling oligarchy. God is to moral relativism what Light is to the science of ‘self enlightenment’.
What Jesus did was to make it easy for the world to believe. How odd that cultured people strove earnestly in His day, and have striven ever since, to make it difficult for the world to believe in His amazing love. You would have thought that the full weight of atheism should have succeeded by now, after two thousand years of striving, but the opposite is true.
It’s impossible to kill eternity. Eternity is a person who never dies. They couldn’t kill Him then, and no forces on this planet can kill Him now. It is logically insane to try and kill off an Eternal Being. It is this madness of unbelief that spends all its energies trying to kill off a God of love.
Monday, May 12, 2008
A standing army is a denial of the love of God
Civilisations come and go like dust blown about by storms; their protagonists and players propelled by a tempest that rages in the human spirit causes them to construct a world full of contradictions.
One of the most contrary constructions that troubles as many people today as it did in Jesus’ time is the ability of modern ‘civilised nations’ to construct two diametrically opposed social and political narratives of belief and consensus each preserved by a legal framework that preserves its bi-polar state of existence.
The legal narrative of one nation will justify to its inhabitants the righteousness of sending a standing army to wipe out the inhabitants of another nation while the same narrative will justify to its tax payers a large annual disposal of their tax to fund ‘humanitarian’ aid toward rebuilding the infrastructure of the environment that the narrative had justified destroying earlier. The atheistic belief that an act of violence is reconciled by an act of kindness is the stupid religion of Secularists and the law they rely on to support actions that cancel each other out is a pitiful joke.
Many ordinary people cannot reconcile the two faced persona of the law. On the one hand it is required by the British constitution that the Lord Chief Justice comes out of his closet and pronounces the war on Iraqi citizens as legal as specified in the highly fabricated Iraq Dossier. On the other it is required by the same British constitution to have a social conscience that defends the ideals of its socialist ideology by maintaining a foreign policy of humanitarian aid to those stricken by the consequences of war.
For their part, the British Government employ the best PR people that money can buy, like well paid journalists and parliamentarians, to make sure the public is sufficiently conditioned by fear to except the legitimisation of a schismatic and duplicitous foreign policy. The media dutifully play their nationalistic role as channels for xenophobia by using just the right level of repetition concerning a state of war; like using a commemorative narrative that portrays past British acts of war as noble; like revisiting the site of a couple of bombings by flashing pictures on the screen nearly every month or so as if we have been bombed to bits for the last 3 years; like ramping up the proud tradition of fighting battles by giving inordinate airtime and prime news space to past heroes wearing medals and to young heroes from the Royal family fighting for the great British empire in Afghanistan; like rolling out a programme schedule on TV that ensures the British public gets a regular injection of wartime memorabilia into their psyche and emotions. This is pure adrenaline, a whipping up of a war consciousness stirred up by the raging human spirit full of contradictions. The public, for their part, soak up all the propaganda and emotive images of dead heroes, and become confused by the legalese of multi-culturalism and religious freedom which grates against the state of war and the spirit of xenophobia and the fear of the foreign menace in their midst. It is the confused philosophy of humanism that seeps through all the impalpable rhetoric.
The political tension created by two diametrically opposed social positions mediated by the law lords in Government is bad enough for any would-be political idealist who harps on about a cohesive policy toward social integration. But for the youngster it is very bad. Violence is seen as something legitimised by Parliament and this surely sends deep psychological signals to the young offender that his angry violence is perhaps justified also.
The British public is exposed regularly to the same handful of pictures rotated by the media showing acts of violence perpetrated against a handful of British citizens. By comparison the massive acts of violence perpetrated by British and American forces in Iraq since 2003 has been given little or no coverage by the same media. It is filtered out by the major Western news channels who control the newswire much to the annoyance and dismay of many journalists who have risked their lives getting the pictures. The British public has become as schizoid as its Government in its attitude toward foreigners. It’s OK to kill them far away under the banner of a Righteous Nation but it’s not OK to be killed by them when they retaliate with the same Righteousness.
But Jesus Christ will have all nations come before Him at the closing of our time, where His words will stand as promised to judge all nations. All men and women who have been involved in creating a violent social order, whether as a criminal syndicate, or as servants of a violent Machiavellian realm, will face the words that Jesus spoke and He will ask,
‘what did you do in response to my Word about the love of the Father? Did I instruct you to kill and murder each other in the name of industry, nation, empire and of icons representing your sense of supremacy? No. Then depart from me and go to the place prepared for the sons and daughters of the evil one.’
You can choose life today or keep your self to your self for a short time. Choose the One who has taken away the sins of the world and who has defeated the works of evil, even while the works continue to manifest themselves in the raging spirit of those who have rejected Him; from Cain to this day.
Don’t be fooled by the rationale of atheists; it is full of false justice and duplicitous reasoning. Come to Christ while you have a chance.
One of the most contrary constructions that troubles as many people today as it did in Jesus’ time is the ability of modern ‘civilised nations’ to construct two diametrically opposed social and political narratives of belief and consensus each preserved by a legal framework that preserves its bi-polar state of existence.
The legal narrative of one nation will justify to its inhabitants the righteousness of sending a standing army to wipe out the inhabitants of another nation while the same narrative will justify to its tax payers a large annual disposal of their tax to fund ‘humanitarian’ aid toward rebuilding the infrastructure of the environment that the narrative had justified destroying earlier. The atheistic belief that an act of violence is reconciled by an act of kindness is the stupid religion of Secularists and the law they rely on to support actions that cancel each other out is a pitiful joke.
Many ordinary people cannot reconcile the two faced persona of the law. On the one hand it is required by the British constitution that the Lord Chief Justice comes out of his closet and pronounces the war on Iraqi citizens as legal as specified in the highly fabricated Iraq Dossier. On the other it is required by the same British constitution to have a social conscience that defends the ideals of its socialist ideology by maintaining a foreign policy of humanitarian aid to those stricken by the consequences of war.
For their part, the British Government employ the best PR people that money can buy, like well paid journalists and parliamentarians, to make sure the public is sufficiently conditioned by fear to except the legitimisation of a schismatic and duplicitous foreign policy. The media dutifully play their nationalistic role as channels for xenophobia by using just the right level of repetition concerning a state of war; like using a commemorative narrative that portrays past British acts of war as noble; like revisiting the site of a couple of bombings by flashing pictures on the screen nearly every month or so as if we have been bombed to bits for the last 3 years; like ramping up the proud tradition of fighting battles by giving inordinate airtime and prime news space to past heroes wearing medals and to young heroes from the Royal family fighting for the great British empire in Afghanistan; like rolling out a programme schedule on TV that ensures the British public gets a regular injection of wartime memorabilia into their psyche and emotions. This is pure adrenaline, a whipping up of a war consciousness stirred up by the raging human spirit full of contradictions. The public, for their part, soak up all the propaganda and emotive images of dead heroes, and become confused by the legalese of multi-culturalism and religious freedom which grates against the state of war and the spirit of xenophobia and the fear of the foreign menace in their midst. It is the confused philosophy of humanism that seeps through all the impalpable rhetoric.
The political tension created by two diametrically opposed social positions mediated by the law lords in Government is bad enough for any would-be political idealist who harps on about a cohesive policy toward social integration. But for the youngster it is very bad. Violence is seen as something legitimised by Parliament and this surely sends deep psychological signals to the young offender that his angry violence is perhaps justified also.
The British public is exposed regularly to the same handful of pictures rotated by the media showing acts of violence perpetrated against a handful of British citizens. By comparison the massive acts of violence perpetrated by British and American forces in Iraq since 2003 has been given little or no coverage by the same media. It is filtered out by the major Western news channels who control the newswire much to the annoyance and dismay of many journalists who have risked their lives getting the pictures. The British public has become as schizoid as its Government in its attitude toward foreigners. It’s OK to kill them far away under the banner of a Righteous Nation but it’s not OK to be killed by them when they retaliate with the same Righteousness.
But Jesus Christ will have all nations come before Him at the closing of our time, where His words will stand as promised to judge all nations. All men and women who have been involved in creating a violent social order, whether as a criminal syndicate, or as servants of a violent Machiavellian realm, will face the words that Jesus spoke and He will ask,
‘what did you do in response to my Word about the love of the Father? Did I instruct you to kill and murder each other in the name of industry, nation, empire and of icons representing your sense of supremacy? No. Then depart from me and go to the place prepared for the sons and daughters of the evil one.’
You can choose life today or keep your self to your self for a short time. Choose the One who has taken away the sins of the world and who has defeated the works of evil, even while the works continue to manifest themselves in the raging spirit of those who have rejected Him; from Cain to this day.
Don’t be fooled by the rationale of atheists; it is full of false justice and duplicitous reasoning. Come to Christ while you have a chance.
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