The Unrighteousness Project
There are a dozen things I've jotted down to blog about to introduce my latest home page writing, and maybe I'll get to them sometime this month, time permitting.
But I simply cannot fail to mention yet another ludicrously foolish attempt to make the world ever-so wonderful. As an AP teacher I'm in an email forum, and often I get a good feel for what some of these teachers are thinking. All of it perfectly rational, some of it horrifically unrighteous.
One guy fancies himself quite the muckraker, and while he does expose some solid things about the benighted ways of the World, most of his offered solutions are those typical silly proposals that contain some spectacular merit but a lot of blatant stupidity. Here is the one that just put me away, and you should be able to find the idiocy in and around the noble intentions.
So that's it! All we have to do is just get our connectedness with technology and science jussst right, and get rid of all that ugly finance and economic stuff, and we'd have paradise!
Thing is, I wonder who exactly is going to mine and drill for the raw materials needed for this utopia? Who is going to assemble it all? Are the speakers in the video going to do it themselves? Or if they actually go so far as to (ee-yew how primitive!) hire people to do it for them, what are they going to do to pay them, exude wholesomely positive vibrations toward them?
All of this sounds so rational! But it is completely unrighteous, merely because these people haven't the faintest idea what to do to actually assess value accurately. They don't account for the harrowing sinfulness in every single human which is the thing that derails all these pipe dreams from the start (like they were the first to think of this stuff -- quite comical).
The World just humms right along spouting about how splendid these people are.
Sin and death and evil will still reign. Even if they did build it all as stunningly as they show it in the video, it would still be inhabited by people out to murder one another.
What makes it most unrighteous is that they've really made an idol of science and technology. It is a god to them. That is the most frightening thing of all.
In my latest home page piece, I've gone a bit more into what happens when people try to do the value assessment thing outside of Christ. I invite you to look over it. I'd like to know what you think.
But I simply cannot fail to mention yet another ludicrously foolish attempt to make the world ever-so wonderful. As an AP teacher I'm in an email forum, and often I get a good feel for what some of these teachers are thinking. All of it perfectly rational, some of it horrifically unrighteous.
One guy fancies himself quite the muckraker, and while he does expose some solid things about the benighted ways of the World, most of his offered solutions are those typical silly proposals that contain some spectacular merit but a lot of blatant stupidity. Here is the one that just put me away, and you should be able to find the idiocy in and around the noble intentions.
So that's it! All we have to do is just get our connectedness with technology and science jussst right, and get rid of all that ugly finance and economic stuff, and we'd have paradise!
Thing is, I wonder who exactly is going to mine and drill for the raw materials needed for this utopia? Who is going to assemble it all? Are the speakers in the video going to do it themselves? Or if they actually go so far as to (ee-yew how primitive!) hire people to do it for them, what are they going to do to pay them, exude wholesomely positive vibrations toward them?
All of this sounds so rational! But it is completely unrighteous, merely because these people haven't the faintest idea what to do to actually assess value accurately. They don't account for the harrowing sinfulness in every single human which is the thing that derails all these pipe dreams from the start (like they were the first to think of this stuff -- quite comical).
The World just humms right along spouting about how splendid these people are.
Sin and death and evil will still reign. Even if they did build it all as stunningly as they show it in the video, it would still be inhabited by people out to murder one another.
What makes it most unrighteous is that they've really made an idol of science and technology. It is a god to them. That is the most frightening thing of all.
In my latest home page piece, I've gone a bit more into what happens when people try to do the value assessment thing outside of Christ. I invite you to look over it. I'd like to know what you think.
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