When AI surpasses human intelligence, and current understandings fail, Technological Singularity arises. Ostensibly to safeguard earth’s wealth of limited resources, the hypothetical future offers total surveillance of world citizens under autocratic, planetary systems management via digital databases.
Regretfully, the beauty, smiles and bliss of “delicious autumn” are popularly supplanted with grave stones, coffins, skeletons, ghosts, demons, witches, black cats, vampires, massive spider webs and jeering Jack-o-lanterns. All attend October 31st when Halloween’s ghoulish emblems find place in neighborhoods, schools, businesses and, yes, even Christian churches.
Good news: Hope is soundly embedded in Ishmael’s name meaning “God hears.” To borrow a phrase from Lamentations 3:29, “Let them lie face down in the dust, for there may be hope at last.” “Arab” means “to lie in wait.” In a sense, Ishmael lies in wait for God’s love that bears, believes, hopes & endures all things.
Freedom from religion, redistribution of wealth under the UN principle of sustainability, “science” by consensus (e.g., gender identity), deflected accountability (e.g., guns kill; people don’t), centralized power, sanctuary status, reverse discrimination, slippery cultural norms/ethics, earth servitude over stewardship, tyranny of technocracy, defund police movement, etc.—none of these components of progressivism deliver promised utopia.
The inimitable Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us, as Christians, that “silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Fiddling while one’s nation burns is not biblically defensible. When informed Christians speak, stand and vote for issues (not personalities)—this, in alignment with God’s Word— “the lot is cast into the lap”; and “its every decision is from the LORD.” (Proverbs 16:33)
Fiddling while one’s nation burns is not biblically defensible. So, then, what are we to do? As Jesus addressed political discussions of His day “with a profound sense of clarity,” so must we. The ekklesia has a voice, and she must use it. Perhaps now more than ever. The inimitable Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us that “silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”
After David’s example, we encourage ourselves in prayer, establishing right relationship with God, and meditating on His Word. In the face of impending distress, we overcome the tug of sensuality, take captive our wayward thoughts, and vigorously eschew demonic input. By thinking continually on things that are excellent
Woke professionals at Boston Children’s Hospital accept the notion that sexuality is how you feel about others; gender is how you feel about yourself. Astonishingly, they recognize “trans” in toddlers (even babies), thus begging the question, “Are all toddlers ‘trans’ for refusing a haircut and playing with opposite-gender toys?”
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