QotD: An alien perspective

The following quote comes from Kobi Drori, the spokesman for the Raelian movement. Who are they you ask? It's a group who doesn't believe in angels, demons, or gods (God), but they do believe that mankind blossomed forth from seeding done by space aliens. Really. No, seriously.

If the following is not the absolute antithesis of Christ, Christianity, and civilization, I don't know what is:

"The second goal is to expedite the establishment of a society based on the principles of non-violence, solidarity, self-fulfillment and pleasure. To establish one global currency, one global government and harness science to the service of humanity, and not against humanity," he concluded.

I highlighted and italicized a bit. I guess I could have done that to the entire quote.

Considering the quote's source and that their advocating mass orgy to further their cause, they'll likely be dismissed, but this is the very hope, the very heresy that will lead the world further astray. It is the setup that will occur as mankind seeks to live apart from God during the time of the end.

Stay vigilant for your enemy prowls like a roaring lion seeking whom he might devour.

Great Quote!

I'm purposefully going to omit the context from the quote. It's also from Schaeffer's "Church...20th Century." While the context would add greater depth, the quote still cracks me up all by itself:

"The difficulty with modern theology is that it is really no different from taking drugs."

War is an Ugly Thing

Let me be the first to wish you and yours a very Happy New Year!

My eldest son read a poem to me this morning that brought to mind a quote by John Stuart Mill. While I wouldn't encourage anyone to adopt his worldview, the quote should slap most of America out of its comfortable complacency.

I post this quote not to address current US foreign policy. That's another discussion. I post it to spur us toward reconsidering our lethargic assessments of issues in our home, communities, and spanning the globe (a tip of the hat to WWoS). Here it is...

"But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice – a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice – is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."

(from his essay "The Contest in America")