hell’s handmaiden

A post at TruthinContext got me thinking about a pattern I’ve noticed and I’d like to beg that it stop. The following snippet is what did it. The quote is out of context, I admit, and the snippet I’m quoting isn’t really key to the post. It is peripheral. Nonetheless, this bit is what caught my attention. It caught my attention because it is such a common assertion. I’m seen it time and again.

“I have found myself in a couple of dialogs on atheist blogs. I have found the conversations enlightening, they tend toward ad hominem attacks and to fallacious reasoning, but what does one expect when they so violently deny the truth and the one who is Truth.”

Honestly, it is the first round of freshman, mostly, college papers I’ve seen in years. The subject is relativism. Of the papers I’ve seen so far, easily one in ten argue…

No.

Much too generous.

Start over.

Of the papers I’ve seen so far easily one in ten contains assertions in support of ethical relativism. Some of them contain quite strong assertions in favor of it. What is even more bizarre is that most of these defenders of relativism defend individual relativism, not cultural, and most tow the same basic line– that we can’t decide who is right or wrong so we just act how we feel like and, effectively, settle things by force.

As a kid– no kidding– I hit tent revivals hosted by most of the major players in the evangelical community of the time. I had my head anointed with holy jesus oil by big names like Oral Roberts and Jimmy Swaggart and good old Billy Graham. I sat through several filmings of Jim Bakker’s TV show– agonizing.

Now, I guess I’m getting back to my roots.

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Holier because I’ve traveled the Holy Highway more times than I can count.

Members of Christian groups along the I-35 corridor said the highway was mentioned in the Bible, and in order to fulfill a prophecy, it needs a little saving first.
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Christians said the Old Testament’s book of Isaiah prophesizes I-35 will be the United States’ “Highway of Holiness.”

Isaiah 35:8 reads: “And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.”

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