Reading some excerpts from a book on how Western Civilization has been led
into apostasy and anti-god thinking in the past centuries crossed my desk.
As Christians who still hold to a supernatural reality, we would be
negligent to ignore the spiritual elements of this apostasy. Although the
self-conscious materialist rejects any notion of a supernatural or spiritual
world, it is surprising how many of the apostates were afflicted by
spiritual forces, and actually gave credence to them in their writings.
“ERNEST HEMINGWAY received something of a Christian heritage and character
but then used it to foul ends. He stands at the head of a long line of
apostate “celebrities” who produced the popular literature and popular music
of the day, who continue in the same vein. Over the last one hundred years,
millions of children raised in similar Christian homes have spun off into
apostasy, and Hemingway was the prototypical apostate that followed.
Recently, the Southern Baptist denomination reported that a full 88% of
children raised in Christian families leave the church as soon as they leave
the home. Ernest Hemingway showed them how.”
“NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S disdain for the Puritans can only be explained by his
own religious apostasy and his commitment to a humanist (man-centered)
worldview. His hatred for the Puritans was deeply personal, relentlessly
biter, and marginally psychotic.”
While these were just two of the book’s examples, they underscore the need
for vigilance in understanding the scope of apostasy in culture (music, art,
entertainment, literature, films, media and many other aspects of our world
today) and the impact it has on us and on our children.
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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”