Biblical religion, freedom, and science must be allies if Western Civilization is to survive. We need each other.
We are flawed and other civilizations also have wisdom and good people. Yet in liberty, knowledge, technology, wealth, and generosity the Judeo-Christian West leads the world and leads history. This is no accident. Biblical religion, freedom, and science have grown together into a historical braid, first in Post-Reformation Europe and then in America. Without liberty there is no growth in prosperity or knowledge. Without the Judeo-Christian value system liberty is anarchy and government is tyranny. Without reason the biblical religions from time to time fall into superstition. Each cord must be independently strong, checking and testing each other toward even more strength and mutual support.
Europe has descended into socialism and functional atheism and even in America the braid is being unraveled. Some reject the biblical God because He is not as sophisticated as they are. His publications have not been peer reviewed. Science is viewed, not as hard won knowledge of the physical universe, but as a political power instrument of old white men. Judges and professors think themselves wiser than the Constitution of the United States of America.
Some say that religion opposes science and science disproves religion. Some say religion wants theocracy and will take away our rights and freedom. Some even claim that their nutty political ideologies are scientific and liberty and religion are outdated. Odd claims for an ideology from the 1860's to make!
If the divisions between these three become conventional wisdom it is an easy step to take freedoms away from people, freedoms we have by Divine Right. Science, together with all art and religion and wealth, become wards and then slaves of the State. No independent organizations or structures will survive. Then who else beside the State is left to rule us? There is no active God, people are children, and the academy, business, the arts, and the sciences are piglets attached to the the sow of Congress. The result, as a world and history of examples shows, will be poverty, invasion, suffering, and oppression.
As for the dried up popular culture and elite snobbery, I do not speak up to get along with it but to attack it. There will be no compromise. Those who put their ideologies or fads or hearts or feelings before Judeo-Christian values, before skeptical science, and before liberty are the new orthodoxy. Self apotheosis is the catholic doctrine of our entertainment, educational, and media culture. These will call me a heretic, a crack pot, and radical while they embrace lies and hug themselves.
I am The Faithful Heretic.
Scientists will wonder why I believe anything in the Bible. Christians will wonder why I insist on using reason to understand it. Libertarians will wonder why I bother. But this is the whole point of this web site, Bible Freedom Science Network. I want to show how both reason and faith can live together. More than live together: support each other and enable each other. Without Christianity freedom will die, is dying, and only in freedom will science thrive.
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Notes:
Psalm 85:11-12, my translation. All three are here: Covenant and Gospel, truth and reason, yield and property.
Colonialism, Fascism, and socialism (a triple redundancy) are not the only flaws but they are the big ones. Please note that all three are left overs, like the divine right of kings, from paganism. Biblical history is the movement away from totalitarian philosophies to freedom and responsibility (also a redundancy).
We have from our beginnings taken aboard foreign peoples, ideas, arts, and music. But this growth by absorbing is only possible for a culture with a strong and majority core. We do not diversify, we incorporate.
As a traditional Christian or Jew would say. Evolutionists, who may also be Christians but are often atheists, would call these natural rights, bred into our genes as social primates by natural selection. This is an example of an alliance, a common cause engaged together from different perspectives. If either the church or science lose this fight, the other will fall as well.
Scientists must see that if a board of education and a court have the power to stop the teaching of creationism, they also have the power to force such teaching. The death of science, through majority rule, is only one Supreme Court generation away. The only rational solution, of course, is to abolish public schools and state dominated universities.