The War On Principles & The Hope In Our Worldview

We live in a culture where really, values are passe. You aren't allowed to have values. Morality, principles are scorned by the media, ignored by academia, dismissed in politics, and mocked by Hollywood. Especially for young people, if you have values your a loser. If you carry a Bible around at public school, your a laughing stock. If you believe in moral behavior, your backwards. If you believe in principles in the political realm, then your an ideologue. If you believe politicians should make decisions based on Constitutional principles, then your an ideological purist. If you think sex is something sacred that should be reserved for marriage, then your a backwards rube, a traditionalist fool. If you refuse to endorse, support, finance, and celebrate gay marriage then you are evil, bigoted, homophobic, racist, sexist, and the very definition of wickedness. You are really worse than Hitler or Stalin if you don't endorse and celebrate gay marriage. If you think the Bible is real, then your an ignorant and dangerous fundamentalist. If you think a fetus represents a sacred life, your waging a war on women. If your blind to race, then your actually a raving racist and white supremacist. If you think a sovereign nation should police it's borders and prevent certain persons from entering illegally, then you are a heartless bigoted anti-immigrant hater. The list goes on, ad infinitum.

Insanity is the new sanity. Lies are the new truth. Depravity is the new holiness. Hate is the new love language. Sin is the new standard. Outrage, the new free speech. And if you disagree, then they will silence you, or get you fired from your job. And media will have a field day dancing on your ashes and celebrating your demise as the latest victory for social justice.

I'd like to say something about all that. And I hope you'll join me. I hope I'm not alone in saying this: "No. You are wrong. Values still matter. Religious faith should be respected. Gay marriage is still wrong. The Constitution is not out of vogue. And yes, even the dreaded heresy of heresies: Jesus Christ is alive, and he is God."

In a world of lies, half truths, where we are astounded by the fact that all that we oppose in life seems to have full control... in the limelight of culture, media, and academia, we must be guided by marrow deep principles. We must be guided by a worldview that is unshakable and firmly set within our souls.

We aren't people who are guided by talking heads in the media, or by big personalities in culture, or even by the latest "experts" and their speculations and calculations as to what is right and true. Instead we are guided by presuppositions based upon value sets. And so are they, those on the other side, the atheist, progressive, secular, Marxist, Freudian, anti-religious, democratic socialists, and all the other various ideologies and views of life that vie for power in our country.

They attack us for basing our worldview on the Bible, the Constitution, and moral behavior. They say that those presuppositions can't be proven. I would say, and have said many times that our presuppositions are more provable than theirs are.

The Bible is a respected historical document which lines up with outside historical accounts. The Bible has transformed hundreds of millions of lives for the better. The Bible is a remarkable document that only arrogant, condescending naturalists in academia have the gumption to mock. Read a full case here. The Constitution is not perfect, but given empirical reality, it has functioned very well to guide the prosperity of an amazing nation: The United States. Moral behavior, well that flows from both of those sources, and it's value to society goes without saying, it is self-evident.

Consider the alternative: various forms of marxism, which have led to decay, economic collapse, and brutal genocides. Consider the alternative of a society that doesn't value life, like Hitler's Germany. Genocide followed, when one group of people were made to appear as the enemy. Today conservative Christians are being scapegoated as an enemy.

All the many names that fit under this crowd of seculars base their worldview on presuppositions. Their presuppositions are that humanity is basically good, that humanity must look to itself for it's utmost and highest. Is humanity good? The state of the world, and the history of humanity should be enough, in short form, to disprove that immediately. As Malcom Muggeridge the noted journalist said, "The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable fact while at the same time being the most intellectually resisted."

Second, our adversary believes that only the natural world exists. They believe in only the physical world. Is that presupposition provable? Absolutely not. It's a presupposition. It's a prior belief system based on faith in the doctrines of naturalism and evolutionary biology.