ruruminations – cnàmh na cìr – chewing the cud

You may argue whether my title is theologically correct, but from a human perspective anyone who cannot see any hope of finding their way having lost it, is hoplessly lost.

As I see it (and the news daily reinforces my conviction) Scotland is full not only of individuals but communites that have hopelessly lost their way.  They have no hope of life-change, their lives spiraling deeper into despair and debasement.

We see trials taking place in the law courts of our land which reveal what some communities or sections of communities (effectively communities within communities) have come to.  Society promotes the inidividual’s rights to an extreme and this is taken to its logical conclusion: do what you will.  Society presses home the idea that there is no absolute right or wrong of which the logical conclusion is that nothing is wrong if you don’t believe it to be so.  Our media stands on street corners pushing evolution and consumerism, both of which devalue human life.

Yet when those who have unquestioningly followed this philosophy in their lives and have bowed to the dictates of the fallen heart in a way which society disapproves of, they are demonised.  Not that I’m justifying in any way what anyone has done, it is right that they be judged guilty and punished.  What I am saying is, what reason do individualist-relativist-evolutionist-consumerists have for condemning their actions?  The answer, absolutely none whatsoever.  Those found guilty have actually followed the dictums of these inconsistent philosophers.  They are the very embodiment of that philosophy.  They did what was good in their own eyes.

The secular philosphers will doubtless respond and say, “There are societal norms and standards of decency that we do not wish to cross.”  But where do these originate?  In our culture they originate mostly from the Bible.  But what if the culture, the mass of the people, come to approve of a certain behaviour?  (A current example would be homosexual practise)  What happens when the societal ideals are different?  Historically you do not have to look far away (geopgraphically) to find examples of where society did not hold to the same ideals of common decency.  In Celtic Britain for example young women and children were sacrificed in pagan worship.  In a relativisitic framework this is right if you believe it, and even in a framework which acquieses in societal ideals the difficulty is not resolved, because clearly it was deemed suitable in the society where it took place.  No secularist wishes to say he thinks that some behaviour which the mass of the people believe to be wrong, is wrong, but logically secular atheistic philosophy can have no framework for truth, right and wrong, but only the shifting sands of human opinion, which will change according to how debased the particular individual or society has become.  Only if there is an absolute framework of truth can one catagorically state that such actions are wrong.

So where am I going with this?  Well I don’t think that it is only individuals that are on trial, our nation is on trial because those on trial are living their lives according to the principles of the atheistic secularism that has been so aggresively propogated over the last few decades.

They are hopelessly lost in the maze or should I say web of human philosophy.  They are bound fast in the chains of sin, which are being reinforced by the very philosophy which claims to be setting them free.  Their only hope is the gospel of God’s grace and intervention.