by Scott H. Northrup
I recently watched a fictional movie about terrorists who smuggle a weapon of mass destruction into the U.S. in order to provoke a nuclear confrontation between the U.S. and Russia. The moral of the story was that we perhaps have more to fear from a single madman who has just one bomb than a civilized nation who has many.
I would propose that such a weapon of mass destruction has already been released upon our civilization. It was not a chemical weapon, nor a biological weapon, nor nuclear. It was a thought bomb. Let me make myself clear. I believe the general collapse of moral values and the new barbarism in the West today is not because of some gang of hooligans on the streets who decided to go bad. It was not started by the arrival of some British rock group preaching drugs, sex, and rock'n'roll. Instead, it can be traced back to "lofty" places, in the halls of academia.
The bomb was detonated when "enlightened" scholars and theologians decided to set aside the authority of holy scripture, decided that Jesus was just a good man if he existed at all, that the resurrection of Christ is a myth, that there is no supernatural, that God as a personal being does not exist, and finally, that all truth is relative. That was the "thought bomb" released on the Western world by secular humanism. We are still suffering from its fallout today. It is trickling down upon us.
The thought bomb first permeated our universities and seminaries. How many devout men of God lost their faith at seminary? I know of some. How many decent kids went off to college and abandoned their faith, their moral values, their honor and respect for sacred things? This was no accident. There is a methodical and deliberate undermining of Christian values in many of our public schools and universities. This devilry spread into our system of justice, where activist judges starting making their own laws rather than simply enforcing them.
Today the media spews forth an immoral venom upon our populace 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There is an appalling vulgarism and lack of respect for basic decency in a vast majority of TV and movie programming. I don't just mean "dirty words." You can't simply bleep out a few coarse words and then expect to safely watch what is left. I mean the cheapening of human life and human relationships.
Worst of all, the secular thought bomb unleashes a continuous direct assault on the Christian idea of family. The God-ordained family consists of one man and one women, covenanted together to sacrificially love one another for life, to provide a stable and nurturing sanctuary of love for their children, raising them to reverence God and respect the dignity and worth of all created things and to know right from wrong. That is the family. Not some cultured clump of cells from a human cloning experiment by people who openly state they have no regard for ethics.
Western civilization is standing on the brink. If we do not keep our footing, we will find ourselves falling over the brink into a new dark age of barbarism and brutality that will make the Middle Ages look like a Sunday school picnic.
Mothers and fathers, you had better get off the fence in this culture war before it's too late! The thought bomb is coming for your children. You had better get saved! You had better get yourself and your family into a local church that preaches the Word of God, get your kids into a youth group where they can be surrounded with some quality friends. Turn off that dad-blamed TV and spend quality time with your family. Forget the workaholism that enables you to buy more technological gadgets and gimmicks than you can possibly enjoy. Buck the system!! Paul said, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may approve what is the will of God, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." The Kingdom of God is going to win the day, be assured, but not without a fight.
@ copyright 2003 by Scott H. Northrup. All rights reserved.