The Left Hates You

April 29, 2018

An unusual Bible lesson from GQ Magazine. Man is a temporary being. Constrained by physical limitations — as well as temporal ones — human beings used to strive for ways to overcome those limitations. Or, rather, the tale of Mankind is one in which we must first acknowledge our own limits and then figure out ways to impart the best bits of ourselves on eternity. Children were traditionally viewed as a way to leave one’s legacy.

Great civilizations throughout history sought to one-up each other with the construction of great edifices as a testament to their peoples’ timelessness. Today, humans live among the great ruins of previously great cultures that dared to dream about how tomorrow would view them. We celebrated great thinkers, writers, philosophers, and scientists, for they deposited greatness into the saga of our race. Specifically, in the case of Western civilization, we venerate great writers and the books they wrote as being ineffable extensions of ourselves.

At least, we used to do that. Nowadays, we venerate ourselves and ignore the past — to our great detriment. Recently, one of the most popular men’s magazines in the world, GQ, voted the Bible as the twelfth (on a list of 21) “most overrated” books in history. Also on this list are such works as Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye. This isn’t just your typical assault on Christianity that is, unfortunately, endemic in modern Western society. It certainly isn’t a mere “book review” either. What GQ Magazine has done is to reveal the full-throated assault — the “deconstruction” — on Western civilization.

The assault has gone on since at least 1968 (though I’ll gladly hear arguments that it started with the Progressive Movement at the turn of the 20th century)..........To Read More.....