Totally oblivious quote for the day

All of that is another way of saying that worldview matters, and it also points to the fact that modern, secular, Western liberals are enjoying freedoms and liberties that are entirely traceable to a Christian worldview that they now reject. They are rejecting the very foundational assumptions and principles and convictions that made the modern democratic experiment possible. They are undercutting the foundations of the very human rights and dignities they claim to represent. It’s really interesting that Tim Stanley here points to the fact that there is no accompanying Ottoman guilt in terms of the treatment of minorities, even as there is guilt in Western societies. Why is that so? It is because Western societies still have, to a decreasing degree, consciences formed by the Christian biblical worldview, and that provides an understanding of right and wrong, of justice and injustice that is part and parcel of Western civilization itself. Urgent in all this is the understanding that you cannot have a Christian civilization once you deny Christianity.

Albert Mohler

But, of course, it is the Enlightenment repudiation of religious governance that secured our liberties, including freedom of conscience. Until then, including right here in what became America, you could get yourself killed for not favoring the au courant view of Scripture.

I predict, with absolute seriousness, that Mohler’s grandchildren will someday lie to my grandchildren about Grampy’s heroic work securing gay rights. It’s, like, a no-brainer.

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