The Battle For Truth

I read Mind Siege a few years ago. It was a really good book. Too bad my wife got rid of it.

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Some readers will be thrilled by this call to trek what the authors feel is the moral high ground, especially those who base their religious values upon intolerance of racial equity, homosexual love, and women's right to choose (even if that choice makes her a single parent in a "nontraditional family"). Others will most likely find this a disturbing and offensive contribution to the American landscape.

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Perhaps it is extreme to a degree. I mean, there are a lot of theologians that really are extreme, don't get me wrong. Some vary with me between mild annoyance to spiritual indignation. This author, though, I don't believe comes anywhere near that. If I'm not mistaken, he's out of Moody, which is generally very good with its ecumenical teachings.On the opposite end of the spectrum, I'm curious to know why mainstream culture today asserts that maintaining traditional values is considered extreme, while 40 men ejaculating into a funnel where some lowly girl sits is not considered extreme-- or if it is, is not incessantly lambasted the way Christendom is.As a Christian, don't you find that odd? Doesn't it seem like the world is out of touch to you?The world is getting more and more pluralistic. With that comes one of the most revered virtues in modern times-- tolerance. Except, this kind of tolerance, the new tolerance, is in fact rabidly intolerant in the name of tolerance. Heck, Phat, you should know as well as anyone what that's all about. I've seen you on the receiving end of a good thrashing over your mild, unassuming beliefs.

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“This life’s dim windows of the soul, distorts the heavens from pole to pole, and goads you to believe a lie, when you see with and not through the eye.” -William Blake