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January, 2006 |
In 1967 |
A Cause of the Decline of the Church |
Posted by Brian Beers at 1/17/2006 11:00:00 PM (0 comments left) |
The decline of morality in the |
In his book, Medved chronicles his transformation from secular, Jewish liberalism to devout Orthodox Judaism and enthusiastic conservatism. He makes many intriguing observations, but the one I focus on now is a mere a parenthetical statement on page 86. In 1967, Lyndon Johnson changed the draft policy in a way the drastically affected the church. Medved attended Yale during the draft for the Vietnam war, and this provides the backdrop for his observation. Students would no longer receive draft deferments for graduate and professional school. This changed everything for the students of the era, forcing us to confront the war more personally than beforeâ¦Only medical students and divinity students would remain exempt from their armed forces obligations. Naturally, tens of thousands of applicants discovered new enthusiasm for healing or holy careers. (Most historians of religion in This was new information to me. I can understand why I didnât learn this in my regular Baptist alma maters. For Baptists there have been two categories of âChristiansâ in the past 75 years. Good Baptists, liberal Christians. Oh! And there are the Northern Baptists too. But only we have held firmly to the truthâthe faithful remnant. Anyway. In spite of our refusal to fellowship with any of these liberal, leprous limbs of the body of Christ, they have had an influence on the character of our nation. Baptist schools required a testimony of faith, and I am sure that this kept them from the difficulties Medved noted. Nevertheless, this influx of self-centered cowards that flowed into the seminaries of And the rest is historyâ¦exceptâ¦that was 38 years ago. So all those who picked up the cloth on false pretenses will soon reach retirement. If Medved is rightâand it seems plausible to me, then we should begin to see a correction of this trajectory of irreligion. As we have an opportunity to learn from the lives of our parents, we learn to discern cause and effect. When these baby-boomers who denied the reality of consequences leave their pulpits and posts in academia, others who are not wedded to this same foolishness will step in. The teaching will move back toward the truth. This is the Spiritâs work, and this 1967 gambit of our enemy will not continue its ill effects. As we move ahead, we need not feel that they argue on equal footing with us. They are morally bankrupt. Only our forbearance allows them to still peddle their fraudulent wares. Their babbling nonsense has no relevance to our search for truth. Abandon them. Forget the âno fool left behindâ idiocy of the last thirty years. We do not need to answer every baseless falsehood. The church is ready to shed some dead weight. Gird yourself and get ready to run.
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