National Women's Hall of Fame Mary Steichen Calderone Mary Calderone sees the problem with the world is the human nature is not evolving as quickly as technology; therefore we must remould human nature itself to the modern, every changing world. She says that a new change is breaking across the Horizon and the task of Educators is to prepare children to step into this new world. To do this they must pry children away from old views and values especially from Biblical and other traditional forms of sexual morality for "religious laws and rules about sex were made on the basis of ignorance. " Family Book about Sexuality" Calderone and Johnston p. 171 Notes from Colson and Pearcey p.242 When we trace the history of ideas about sexuality, it becomes clear that the founders of sex education never did seek simply to transmit a collection of facts about how our bodies work. Rather, they were evangelists for the utopian worldview, a religion , in which a "sci...
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Notes Taken from Colson and Pearcey pps 209 and 210 #2 Deny that suffering and evil even exist. Some people try to solve the problem of evil and suffering on earth saying they are merely illusions created by their own minds. Christian Science Monitor At Christian Scientists' meeting, This is the strategy adopted by Christian Science and by some Eastern religions. Hinduism say that the physical universe is all an Illusion (maya) and that suffering of the body is just a misconception of the MIND. If we just train ourselves to think correctly, we can overcome all suffering through realising it does not exist. [Maya] According to many schools of Hinduism , the world is an illusion, a play of the supreme consciousness of God. It is a projection of things and forms that are temporarily phenomenal and sustain the illusion of onen...
Notes from Colson and Peacey Pps 208- 211 If God is both All-Good and All-Powerful he will not allow evil and suffering to exist in His Creation. Yet, evil does exist. Therefore, either God is not all-good (that is why He tolerates evil), ar, he is not all-powerful (that is why He can't get rid of evil, even if He wanted to.) Men try to propose their solutions but they all fall short of the Biblical Solution. Here are the normal human solutions to these supposed contradictions: Solution #1 Deny that God exists at all. The atheist simply throws out the first proposition. If there is no God at all, then evil poses no problem. Or does it? If we follow this proposal to its logical conclusion, the problem of evil is transformed into something even worse: that nothing is evil, and by extension, that nothing is good. If there is no God then, there is no good and no evil. They are only subjective feelings taught by our society or culture telling us what is approved and what is dis...
Einstein Thinking. The Greatest Scientist of the past Century ,the 20th century, for him, the toughest intellectual barrier to the Christian Faith was not the question of whether God created the World or not. He saw clearly that the Universe was designed and orderly and therefore there must be a mind behind everything, no mere chance bumping around of atoms in space. As he put it, the order of the Universe "reveals an intelligence of such superiority" that it overshadows all human intelligence. He believed vehemently in a causal order unifying nature from top to bottom. What Stymied Einstein? It was the problem of evil and suffering. Knowing there must be a designer, he agonized over the character of that designer. How could God be good yet allow terrible things to happen to people? Because he could not reconcile the problem of evil and suffering with a good God, he turned away from the God of the Bible. He was a determinist. He always said that we we...
"A God who did not abolish suffering - worse, a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering - is a scandal to the modern mind. " Peter Kreeft. C. Colson and N. Pearcey p.203 ranker.com He ate grasshoppers just to troll his friends The year was 1942, and the scene was the crowded front parlour of Albert Einstein's home, where the famous physicist had arranged a tea party for three clergymen: a young orthodox rabbi named Dov Hertzen, a middle-aged Catholic Priest named Brian McNaughton and a liberal Protestant Theologian named Mark Hartman. Albert Einstein's Out of my Latter years and The World as I see it. "Rabbi Hertzen here 'provoked' this little party," Einstein began, as soon as the men had sampled the tea and cookies. " He congratulated me on my open-mindedness when I dropped my belief in a static Universe. Not long ago, I observed Hubble's red-shifts for myself at Cal Tech." Einstein leaned back in his chair and ...
After a Prison term the late Chuck Colson was ministering in prisons all over the world. In Colson and Yancey p.143 we have his summation of her experience with this young boy, "God knew when He created Max that he would need extra help in this world., so God keeps His Hands cupped around Max. He doesn't let him go. I know that wherever Max is, God is holding him gently in His hands. How could a child who is held by God be anything but a gift?" How Precious!Max was born after a frightening long labour and difficult birth. He just loves people and is at hit happiest when in the middle of a group of other kids. The fact is that Max has touched more lives than any other little guy I know. But Max is exactly the kind of child that the modern eugenics crowd would snuff out while still in the womb - or, if his "defect" couldn't be detected there, then on the delivery table. Or even if others had their way, in the first weeks of life. The truth is that the ...
Today we are going to compare these two. The Hedonistic Self-gratification which leads to anarchy and suicide or the Biblical View of Obedience to God and Rich Rewards. The Christian Worldview sets a very High Value on Human Life. This is not just biological Life. We are more than just a body. We are spiritual beings who live in a body. Some things are more important that biological Life. Obedience to God is one of them. Isaiah, the great Prophet of the Old Testament, while inditing the People of Judah said, " Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. Isa 1:19 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; Isa 1:20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken. Even though your sins have so deeply stained you life, like the scarlet die from tha...
Colson p.185 When Colson went to a women’s prison to speak for Prison Fellowship to the inmates he wanted to see Susan Smith. She had drowned her two small sons by letting her car slide into a lake with them still strapped into their car seats. Her new date said that these two children would be a hindrance to her marrying him. She turned out to be an ordinary woman sitting on the front row. The face of evil is frighteningly ordinary. What about the 11 year old and thirteen year old who pulled the school fire alarm, assumed sniper positions and then start shooting the students as they file out. They kill four students and a teacher and wounded eleven others. There are freckled faced teenage killers. There are killers on the streets and in the suburbs. What does evil look like? Just like the murderers with ‘Survival of the Fittest’ tee shirts at Columbine High School in Colorado. “Columbine High School was the site of one of the deadliest mass shootings in mod...
Notes from 'How Now shall we live', by C. Colson and N. Pearcey. pps 126-128 Why is our thinking so degraded when what I am is determined by what other people think I should be. Man is trying to create the ideal species capable of living in harmony and stability , a species free from all antiquated ideas and encumbrances such as family and child rearing. To ensure the unfettered pursuit of happiness , free sex is encouraged, and all purpose drug will be available. Life will be a perfect bliss. when it becomes burdensome or inconvenient, it is gently and mercifully ended. This is a bizarre fantasy. eugenics juːˈdʒɛnɪks/ noun the science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. This resulted in Eugenics - the idea of improving the human race and based upon evolution and the superior species. It was to be brought about by selective breeding. This did not begin in Hitler's Laboratories b...
After a Prison term the late Chuck Colson was ministering in prisons all over the world. Notes from C. Colson pps 120 -126. Abortion has always been about more than abortion. It is the wedge used by the so-called progressives to open the Historic Commitment in western Civilisation to the dignity of human life. The western world world has moved from abortion to infanticide. Handicapped infants are quite routinely allowed to die.. A poll in 1975 revealed that 77 % of paediatric surgeons favoured withholding food and treatment in the case of defective babies. My own daughter was encouraged to abort what they said was a defective fetus. Her and her husband refused to allow it. That young girl is now top of her high school class in English and has received repeated academic awards at her High School in Sydney. After a Prison term the late Chuck Colson was ministering in prisons all over the world. My Granddaughter Fancy stating that aborting babies has 'an impo...
Notes from C. Colson and N. Pearcey HOW NOW SHALL WE LIVE. Oliver Wendell Holmes : I see no reason for attributing to man a significance in kind from that which belongs to a baboon or a grain of sand. Life is a sacred gift from God . No one knows this better than Ken McGarity. He had both legs blown off as well as one testicle and both arms broken. He also lost both eyes from shrapnel wounds in Vietnam. Despite his pain and handicaps he married, had two daughters, and even though he struggled he was alive and was greatly helped through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Some just wanted him to die, which would have been the easy way out, but a courageous doctor helped sew him up and saved his life. 189th Assault Helicopter Company Tony Gambone, Bob Taylor, Ken McGarity, Travis Gillis, and John Silversmith What is the Meaning of Human Existence? Christians believe that we are a Special Creation of God in His own image. Because human life bears this Divine Stamp,...
Notes from How Now shall We LIVE? By Chuck Colson and N. Pearcey Pps. 99 -100 Is the concept of a “roadmap” working . MSDN Blogs - Microsoft The Road Map to Reality: Every Worldview is a proposed Road-Map of Reality, a Guide to navigating in this world. The Crucial Test is to ask whether we can live by it . If you find that you are continually splashing through rivers and crashing onto rocks and boulders then there must be something wrong with your Map. If you are living according to a worldview but keep bumping into reality in painful ways, you can be sure there is something wrong with your worldview. Let's Test the naturalistic Worldview of Carl Sagan? Sagan literally canonised the Cosmos, openly plugging his personal Philosophy on his popular TV program. He transformed Science into a religion. QuotesNSmiles.com Carl Sagan Quotes One consequence of His religion of the Cosmos was that he actively committed to the cause of animal rights. So he ...
How Now Shall We live? By C. Colson and N. Pearcey p. 97. In William Steig's Yellow & Pink. a delightfully whimsical picture book for children, two wooden figures wake up and ask, " Do you know what we're doing here?" So begins the debate between two marionettes over the Origin of their existence. Pink surveys their well formed features and concludes, " Someone must have made us. " Yellow disagrees. " I say that we're an accident," and he outlines the hypothetical scenario of how it might have happened. A branch might have broken off a tree and fallen on a sharp rock, splitting one end of the branch into two legs. Then the wind might have sent it tumbling down the a hill until it was chipped and shaped. Perhaps a flash of lightning struck in such a way as to splinter the wood into arms and fingers. Eyes might have been formed by woodpeckers boring in the wood. "With enough time, a thousand, a million, maybe two million and...
"Look, Katy" one dad asked his daughter, "Just think of your own experience. Have you ever seen a message written in the sky for all to see or on a rock by some kind of natural force? " "Hmmm" she replied noncommittally. VectorStock DNA molecule vector image Anyone who says that some natural force in the chemicals 'wrote' the DNA code - well, that's like saying the chemicals in the paper and ink wrote these words on this page. It never happened. What our children are being taught in school is saying that nature can do everything on its own and that God is irrelevant. Q uietly God is being nudged into this position of irrelevance, where there is simply nothing for Him to do as far as creation is concerned. When they study Evolutionary Biology which says, "By coupling un-directed, purposeless variation to the blind, uncaring process of natural selection , Darwin made Theological and spiritual explanations of the life proces...