The great characteristic of our age is not its love of religion but its love of talking about religion. Even those who would smite God from the heavens make a religion out of this religion and a faith out of their doubt. On all sides - from a thousand pens, a hundred microphones, scores of university rostrums - we have heard it repeated until our very head reels that the "acids of modernity" have eaten away the old faith and the old morality, and that the modern man must have a new religion to suit the new spirit of the age.

This new religion, we are told, must be absolutely different from anything that ever existed before. It must be just as fresh and modern as the brilliant age in which we live, with its new hopes, new visions, and new dreams. When we inquire diligently into the characteristics of this new religion, we are told it must be social, it must be political, it must be worldly.

By social they mean it must dedicate itself, not to the illusory pursuit of the spirit but to the practical needs of the body. the religious man of the new era will be the one who gives bread to hungry stomachs, clothes to naked backs, and roofs to sheltered heads. Better milk for babies, better playgrounds for children, better bread for the poor - these, and not faith, grace and sacraments, are the things on which man lives; and that religion which gives these social necessities is the religion of the future.

Next, we are told that the new religion must be political and by that is meant that it should cease talking about the Kingdom of God and begin talking about the republics of earth. All its energies and zeal must be directed to support government policies such as liquor control, gold standards and labour codes; there must be a swing away from the stress on eternity, prayers and the communion of saints; for the world problems, in need of a solution, are not religious, we are told but economic and political.

The final characteristic of the new cult will be its worldliness. Too long has religion emphasized responsibility to God and dwelt on duties to Him instead of service to our fellowmen. The new religion has no time for the thought of responsibility to God, for "the modern man" George Bernard Shaw tells us, "is too busy to think about his sins". It makes man the master of all he surveys, the lord of his own life, and therefore, one who may shuffle off by his own hand if he chooses; for who is there who will dare say Nay?

Now let us ask the new prophets; How old is their new religion? Is it really a new thing or is it merely an old error with a new label? Let us go back two thousand years to the Eternal Galilean and learn not only that the new religion is just an old temptation but also that resistance to it is pledge and promise of Life Everlasting.

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -