The Empty Substitute

 

Trying to get caught up on my daily scripture readings (yes, I’m WAY behind).

This is from the reading for Christmas eve. I’m not sure how true this is anymore, but no one from my generation or born in the next couple of decades could read this without hearing the voice of Linus.

  

This is true because this reflected the CULTURE of our time.

Culture is everything. It is the reason why engineering replaced human sacrifice to pagan gods as the means of mitigating the more disastrous effects of our environment.

It is the reason why the ancestors to what became the Dutch began building a form of dike to hold back frequent flood waters over 2000 years ago. It is the reason why hospitals with names taken from Christian saints or Mary, the Mother of God, and staffed by Christian monastics were built beginning in the Medieval period to care and comfort the sick and injured.

It is what gave us the ideas taken from the Romans and the Greeks to create a new nation, “conceived in Liberty”, and “a Republic, if you can keep it”.

Today, we are slowly reverting back to a form of pagan worship, and its coexisting cultural identities of DEI, environmental hystericism, and the need to embrace ever more morally ambiguous and shocking lifestyle attributes – specifically geared to draw attention to each individual, independent of merit, and driven entirely by ego. In short, we are becoming “men without chests”, gradually bringing about “The Abolition of Man”.

For example, in response to the horrific wild fires that have devastated Los Angeles, the Left in this country is virtually bowing down to the modern pagan gods of DEI and climate change (essentially blaming it on any who do not worship at the shrines of these religions). This is being done instead of implementing common-sense traditional mitigation techniques, exploiting existing technologies, and advancing merit-based staffing in it’s fire fighting and disaster management organizations.

But those solutions would involve standing up to the pagan cultural masters of the day. Much easier to just play the blame game.

We could learn something from those Dutch ancestors, who were beginning to see the much greater advantage of embracing technology, and dispensing with pagan religious practices and mindsets.

But that would require embracing traditional CULTURAL norms that many believe are antiquated and lack all the dazzling aspects of impudent and shameless self-promotion.