Disease at the Root

Why is the modern world so diseased - so suicidal?

The root is purpose in life. Justification - that is, why one exists. Traditionally, families would affirm their striving towards the good. That is, towards towards God. This imbued individuals and countries with purpose.

Now though, the modern world believes in no so such thing. It is a zombie, aimless, just consuming while decaying. It knows its own fraud and disease and its attempts at survival are mere minimum. There is no reaching towards Heaven, for they can never acknowledge its existence.

Declining birthrates, population replacement, etc. - symptoms of the disease at the root.

The Family

In our investigation into the nature of reality and God, much seems to rest on the simplest things. Specifically, the family appears to be central to our understanding. That is, every aspect is reflective of both the message of Christ and our relationship with God.

As children, our hope, fears, and faith our placed on parents. The same is our relationship with God throughout our entire lives. As a parent, we ideally exercise personal live towards our children - interest in their development and progress towards adults. It appears God's relationship to us is similar.

The ideal family relationship is often reflected in exercising unselfish love towards one another. This often expands to our extended family, whom are naturally the first we look for with assistance in times of trouble.

Christianity as a whole has always propagated this idea, though it is especially emphasized in Mormon theology.

Familial love, children, marital partnership - these essential aspects of our humanity and understanding Christ and our relationship with God.

Of course, these same things are specifically undermined in the modern world. It seems, top down, to be an attempt to subvert this archetype of our relationship with God. The sexual revolution undermines the unique and sacred marital relationship, and specifically its supernatural and material link to children. The "right" to separate this role from the creation of children, and more specifically the right to murder undesired children. The easy with which one can separate the scared marital union. Finally, of course, of late is the undermining of marriage itself. The corruption and mocking of its meaning and attack on the reality of gender itself. The delaying of children, the subversion of this most important role for women.

It is, not only the archetype of our relationship with God, but of course it is the most important thing to man himself - by extension community, ethnicity, country. That is, so goes family so goes man.

To step away from the cynicism and evil of this is to celebrate God and most important. That is, to make family the most important thing next to God. To embrace it, to make it a priority.

What churches are emphasizing this? What churches are celebrating it in its proper role as the most important thing? Who dares to stand for God in the face of rampant subversion and evil?

That is no exaggeration, for man himself is nought without our familial relations to one another and God Himself.

Human Folly

Folly is an inseparable aspect of humanity. It is essentially linked to self interest. Every generation, many people fall victim to frauds - that is, to other's self interest - in the pursuit of their own.

The idea that there is something new under the sun appears to be mostly linked to the ignorance of youth. Hopefully people learn while there is less to lose.

The modern world, in general, believes religion constitutes a vast fraud. There are, of course, innumerable instances of individuals perpetuating fraud via religion to support this conclusion.

Yet religion persists, in one way or another. In general, the world still has faith in science and its products. There are, of course, specific instances to support this idea, but the faith is a broad acceptance.

We all, especially in our moments of weakness, desire parental assistance. That is, a believable source of truth and something we can believe in - our own intellect, of course, limited. So at one time this was dominated by God, but now it is dominated by systems and bureaucracy. That is, the government, the medical industry, the media complex, etc.

Traditionally, religions emphasize obedience in the face of this Human Folly. This is a parental quality: you may not understand why running in the street is dangerous, and until you are old enough, you must obey.

Of course, we always think we're old enough sooner than we are.

So how does one know? That is, in the face of massive deceit, ignorance, self delusion, and perpetual human error - how is one to know?

I think Bruce Charlton has elaborated a foundation, and it is the core of Christianity. We must recognize the above situation, but still try our best. This life, as a whole, is situated as to provide us with the possibility of spiritual progress. We must, indeed, try our best - and to always be ready to repent our errors.

That is, it really is about personal choice. Especially perhaps in our particularly modern circumstances. Where many of us don't have the option of simple obedience - or even where those whom we should simply obey appear to have lost their way - we must make the active and personal choice to believe in God instead of meaningless. We much take each step, though difficult, and expect personal error and folly.