More on this book
Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Jeff Myers
Started reading
December 22, 2017
Marxism is a religious worldview.
People with discernment can see the relationship between all of the pieces of information they are trying to process at any given moment. If they are thoughtful about spiritual things, this capacity will enable them to better understand God, the world, and their relationship to God and the world.
ideas do have consequences.
All worldviews are religious.
fundamentalist [by which he means Christian]
the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.
The Christian worldview offers a narrative of all history.
According to Serge Trifkovic, “Islam is not a ‘mere’ religion; it is a complete way of life, an all-embracing social, political, and legal system that breeds a worldview peculiar to itself.”
others are made up whole cloth in a very short period of time.
Marxism
utopian state
Some say it’s pointless to include Marxism as a dominant worldview in this volume, but we disagree.
Unable to give up the Cold War.
the notion of mind (logos) preceding matter is superior to the atheistic stance of matter preceding mind.
God-ordained spheres.
legal theories that prey on the innocent and let the guilty go free.
?
concept of private property
ten categories as sacred,
private property is hardly sacred
their competing claims cannot all be true.
what do you do with Jesus Christ?
We should work for the love of the work itself,
The Christian story of creation is this: a relational Creator made human beings in his image, releasing them to relate and create. This is the foundation of everything—of human rights, social order, marriage. It is, in short, the framework for the good life—for the individual and for all of civil society.
At the end of all things, Christianity says, the serpent who said “Take, eat” in the garden will be defeated by the Savior who said, “Take, eat” in the upper room.
“With me, the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?” 51
Lewis again, “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary color, or, indeed, of creating a new sun
and a new sky for it to move in.” 64
Putting Christian economics into practice results in prosperity for the greatest number of people, even while the interventionist welfare state seems to secure generational poverty.
Putting Christian law into practice guarantees human rights as God-ordained, while its denial—in France for two centuries, in the Soviet Union for seventy years, and in the U.S. for the last half-century—has been a history of carnage.
