Some people these days seem to be thinking ether is a Christian revivla going on. It's not my idea of a revivial but it is a kind of revival and could be toward the kind I khave in mnd if it holds up. It comes off discussions like the one I just posted on with Holland and Murray and Meyer, where Christianity is being rediscovered as the foundation of western civilication, and there seems to be a more generally positive attitude toward it than we'd been seeing in the new atheist movement that followed on nine eleven.
They point to various people who have personally turned to Chrsitainity recently too, such as Ayaan Hirisi Ali and russell Brand, someone I'm not familiar with, and others. So far as I've gone on this rack it does seem to be mostly focused on societal ills and our need to find solutions to them, although a theme of personal discontent and even despair keeps coming up too.
What I want of course is a Holy Spirit outpouring which knocks people flat on their faces for hours on end, riveted to the floor and to the church environment wfor starters wshere it usually comes about but I suppose it doesn't have to. Certainly a lot of people have bveen praying fo ryears for revivial and this intellectual change of mind and heart I'm now hearing about could be the first move in that direction. You can't very well knock people flat with the Holy Spirit who don't have the foggiest idea what chrfistianity is all about or who the Holy Spirit is or what to do with such an experience, so it makes sense that god would ease us all into a true revival by first geting people to think hard about the Bible's teachings and the differenct worlviews we have been living under for so many decades. People are discovering that the moral basis of the west is very Christain and that's a very good thing because it is, and getting aback to the root of it would save the eweatst .
This upcoming electgion makes it particularly urgent . I hope the good guys win of course but even if we do something more is drastically needed if we aren't just to fall back into the mess we've been in for so long and that threatenes to get worse fi the bad guys win. Certainly if they win we will even more desperately need a Christain revival if there is any hope of keeping America and the wetst in general from sinking into the totalitarian swamp.
As the prophecy ministries say a lot these days, it may be that we are simply at the very end and we won't have a revival, we'll just see the Church raptuered and the world go into the Great Tribulation and jesus come back to reign. Well, God's will be done bur t I would like to see a bgreat awakening foirst in which millions come back to God, and THTHEN those who won't will be the only ones left.
I hope thi is what they think it might be. Let it be the opening wedge of a great great revival Lord, please please please.
Christian revival: Fantasy or reality? - UnHerd LIVE
NOTE: THE URL goes to the last part of the discussion so you have to set it back at the beginning yourself. Sorry about that, I do try to get it to start at the right place but I don't succeed at that.
Listening back to this as I always do again I hnote my many typeos abut also again I note that some of them are not my own errors but something imosed on the text by some alien entity, perhaps a bug in the software. It keeps turning the world revival into Revivial and Christian into Christain. It changes one form of a word into another form of it so that the sentence is not grammatical. yes this is the kind of thing that could be a type by me but I just happene to know that in most cases it isn't.
guess it doesn't do me h good to complain about it but who knows maybe it could.
Late Sunday
I don't want to start a new post although I'll be going somewhat off topic. In my usual wanderings around You Tube I've been running across more of the discussion of religion by unbelievers, mostly from those who are positive toward it such as Peterson and Murray, but the main context is not the religion itself but social conflict. This is particularly pronounced in the UK where Murray keeps tring to deal with the problem of the alien Muslim culture which has invaded that culturally Christain nation.
It's a frustrating discussion. The mindset that could have allowed or promoted the influx of so many Muslims is either naive to a degree of obtuseness I can hardly fathom, or malevolent to an equally incomfprehensive degree in the other direction. That is the question of how it could have happened in the first place but now we have the same twwo alternatives in the rationalizations in defensvee of the rightness and googdness of this influx of a totally alien and vixiously antiChristain ideology. ANaive or malevolent the midnleset is THE most destructive force in the western world today. It's Marxism, its wokeness, it's that area of thought some have been calling HyperChristianity beause it purports to be the defender of the poor and downcast which is of course a legacy of CHristianity. But what they are calling the poor and downscast is really criminal and hostile and they cant't tell the difference or they simply deny it, are blind to it. it's practically the formula for destroying western civilication civilization. That we actually have to treat this mentality as a reasongable point of vie w to be debated in polite company is already midnd boggling. Is this the definition of insanity?
It's what the Left is doing and wants to do more of and justifies as ritght and good. Sheer insanity.
We don't know how to fight it, thay always have righteous toned answers to hurl at us, all in the service of keep ing the evil flowing in unchecked.
This hopeless situation is what makes God's intervention in a great revival the only possible answer.
Yes when good is called evil and evil is called good, as aggressively as they are doing today, how is it possible to stop the torrent of evil that is engulfing us? Who would ever have thought it could happen this way? they sound utterly crazy those college students who are debating against Charlie Kirk, or those leftists who are taking on the Trump supporters, so self righteously adamang about something that is pure evil apparently without a speck of doubt. I could review the issues but I dn't have the stomach for it at the moment.
Monday morning:
I hope the URL at the obottom of this section goes to the beginning of the talk but it may not and you'll have to reset to the beginning yourself.
This is an interview by Douglas Murray of someone whose name I keep forgetting, gilling I think is the last name, who has written on the subject of the beneficial effects of colonialism, which of course has earned him all sorts of hatred and threats from the Woke Left who so pricde themselves on their compassion.
His view is that colonialism byu the ewest wasn't for the sake of conquest and subjugation of the conquered peoples but held the view that the peoples were deserving of something better than they had, which the west has. They need to be lifted out of their backward state into civilization and all its benefits and they were regarded by westerners as equals rather than as inferios which is how the left mischaracterizes western colonialism. Of course there will always ebe indiiduals who don't share the dominant philosophy but overall it was a benefolent attitude and not a subjugating attitude the wewst carried to the peoples it came to oversee. Yes the idea is that western civilization is superior and the tribal peoples inferior as far as their culture and circumstances go but their human nature is the same as everyone else's and culture can be improved. This of course the left vilivies as egocentric when it is nothing of the sort. The very idea of anything being superior to something else , except of course their own point of view, angers them. they call it white superremacy and nazism and all those other epithets they throw around these days. This is the evil that calls itself good that I'm talkinga bout above. that is so aggressive and indignantly morally superior themselves it is hard to find a way to shosw them how they are wrong. In fact it is impossible.
So I think Gilling makes the right argument but wshat is left out of the discussion is the fact that the attitude the west carried to its colonized peoples was a Christain one. There is no white supermreamcy, or scultural supremacy in the sense the left throws at us, not at all, it is Chrsrist who is superior to everything and everybody and we have benefited from Him and wnat to share Him with everybody else. So that they can benefit too, be lifted out of their fallen miseries to enjoy peace and propsperity and liberty along with the west.
This is what the Left wants to kill, Christianity itself, whether they know it or not, with their so called hyperChristianity which isn't any kind of Christianity at all.
this is such good stuff which like all the really good stuff in the world today and especially in the west isopposed by the Marxist Wokeist Evil it hardly stands a chance of being heard at all, being subject to immediate cancellation ssas "misinformation" and the like, let alone being used to better the world as it should be used. It is heartbreaking to understand what is really going on in the world with all these incidents of the war between good and evil which the evil side seesms to be winning everywhere. Listen oto it all if you can. The curtain is either going to come crashing down soon in which case you won't be able to find it again, or God will intervene and save us. I don't see any ohther alternatives and although I hope and pray for the latter I have no feeling of optimism abou tiit.
Uncancelled History with Douglas Murray | EP. 02 Colonialism