 Barked: Sun Jun 2, '13 9:47pm PST |
 | |  | | Here is something that was written ovfur 50 years ago, and seems even more true today:
" [Surprisingly] the Christian Church now finds herself
called upon to proclaim the old and hated doctrine of sin as a
gospel of cheer and encouragement. The final tendency of the
modern philosophies--hailed in their day as a release from the
burden of sinfulness--has been to bind man hard and fast in the
chains of an iron determinism. The influences of heredity and
environment, of glandular make-up and the control exercised by
the unconscious, of economic necessity and the mechanics of
biological development, have all been invoked to assure man
that he is not responsible for his misfortunes and therefore
not to be held guilty. Evil has been represented as something
imposed upon him from without, not made by him from within. The
dreadful conclusion follows inevitably, that as he is not
responsible for evil, he cannot alter it... Today, if we could
really be persuaded that we are miserable sinners--that the
trouble is not outside us but inside us, and that therefore, by
the grace of God, we can do something to put it right, we
should receive that message as the most hopeful and heartening
thing that can be imagined."
... Dorothy Leigh Sayers |  |  | |  |
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Van Winkle!
awsome videos and music...Love the Pentecost writing
Dogster Obsessions: The Starter Kit for Dogs by Wildebeest
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