9.27.23
Hey, Calvary Fremont –
Many of us have seen this coming and rejoice! In a stunningly clear opinion piece by Gerard Baker published in the Wall Street Journal online on 9.26.23, he states that the New Moral Order is crumbling around us. He writes:
The New Moral Order our secularist elites have been busy constructing since the end of the Cold War is collapsing. Over the past 30 years, the values of Judeo-Christian belief that have inspired and sustained Western civilization and culture for centuries have been steadily replaced. But the contradictions inherent in the New Moral Order have been increasingly exposed. Its failure to meet the needs of the people is discrediting it in the popular mind. This New Moral Order has been built around three principal pillars:
First, the ethical primacy of global obligation over national self-interest. This means that Washington DC should have the same obligation to immigrants as it has to its own citizens. It is a rejection of the morality of national borders and an embrace of something like open-door immigration.
Second, a radical commitment to climate catastrophism, in which man’s essential energy-consuming sinfulness can be corrected only by massive sacrifice of economic progress.
Third, the virtues and values of traditional civilization are rejected and replaced by the ideology which obliges the class of white, male heterosexuals to acknowledge their history of exploitation and submit to comprehensive social and economic reparation.
Baker finishes his opinion piece this way: Throughout the West, on three continents, each of these three pillars is crumbling. We don’t know what will replace this New Moral Order, but we can at least hope for a restoration of the traditional values.
You can read the full article and the details of the crumbling here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-new-moral-order-is-already-crumbling/ar-AA1hf2jJ.
I would add a fourth pillar – the triumph of the subjective over the objective, or the triumph of the relative over the absolute. And this is seen in the doctrines of genderfluidity. If a man says he’s a woman, he’s a woman. If a woman says she’s a man, she’s a man. Science must bow to Self. Modernity says that there’s a new sheriff in town – Reason and its deputy, Science. But then Postmodernity came along and shot the sheriff and the deputy! Genitalia, gonads, chromosomes and DNA don’t mean a thing. DNA will convince a modern jury that a man is a criminal, but DNA won’t convince that same jury that a man is a male. There is increasing pushback against this ideology even among many thinking non-Christians and this pillar is cracking – and will crumble.
I’d be happy to see the Judeo-Christian ethic come flooding back – a revival of sanity. I’d be happy if Science and Reason were nursed back to health and taken off life support. I’d be happier with a revival! What an opportunity for the Church to be the Church! John says of Jesus in John 1:14. “And we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” We are in a cultural moment when people are starved for the grace and truth of Jesus Christ. The Judeo-Christian ethic can save civilization, but only Jesus can save a soul. Let’s not just work for the saving of civilization, let us labor for the saving of souls. The walls of Jericho didn’t fall on the first day, but fall they did. These four pillars won’t crumble in one day, but crumble and collapse they will. The kingdom of the world will become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Thank you, Gerard Baker, for such a clear and encouraging article.
Be blessed and stay healthy and follow Jesus – Pastor Tim
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