[Speed Gibson,
Tuesday June 28, 2005 at 11:44pm]
Secular Leaps of Faith
A couple of weeks ago, Dennis Prager made an interesting observation. But let's start with a premise, that the secularists have their own religion, usually borne of narcissism and Nihlism.
The secularists mock the "leap of faith" we believers take in accepting God. But they have their own leaps of faith to perform says Prager.
In fact, those who accept God take but one leap of faith - to accept God and his Word. The rest is reasoned out from there.
The secularist, however, has no base on which to build. Socialized medicine? It's a leap of faith that it's a good and just thing, if it works at all and doesn't kill anybody. Poverty causes crime? Guns are bad? Public schools are good, and getting better? Partial birth abortion isn't murder? On what basis, other than simply what you feel inside, do you take a position or claim something is just?
Every time the secularists take up a new topic they need a fresh leap of faith that somehow they've got it right and others are wrong.
Seems like a lot of extra work, and it doesn't work near as well.
The secularists mock the "leap of faith" we believers take in accepting God. But they have their own leaps of faith to perform says Prager.
In fact, those who accept God take but one leap of faith - to accept God and his Word. The rest is reasoned out from there.
The secularist, however, has no base on which to build. Socialized medicine? It's a leap of faith that it's a good and just thing, if it works at all and doesn't kill anybody. Poverty causes crime? Guns are bad? Public schools are good, and getting better? Partial birth abortion isn't murder? On what basis, other than simply what you feel inside, do you take a position or claim something is just?
Every time the secularists take up a new topic they need a fresh leap of faith that somehow they've got it right and others are wrong.
Seems like a lot of extra work, and it doesn't work near as well.