adultrous generation

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1. Have you ever heard the idea that post-modernism with its emphasis on choosing reality and relativism and loss off all dogma (because all dogma is just a power play) ... truly leaving us without any viable pattern of existance is really just a big cover for the global empire? Think about it, what does big business and post-modernism have in common? Personal choice. One is theory consumption (as opposed to looking to elders or even to lessons learned over generations) and the other is product consumption. We all think we are lonely kings, deciding morality, style, and vocation ... We think we are individuals, but in reality we are just levers in one vast machine accomplishing someone else's progress. Bob Dylan said it best ... this isn't simple progress, this is SuckSess at its best.

2. I would take the old view of responsibility and duty any day. MEN you are called to make the home safe. You neglect it at your peril. You have no purpose outside of defending vulnerable homes and standing for the truth. Making a safe place for love to bear fruit and for children to grow up with full bellies and full hearts. WOMEN you are called to love and cherish life ... all life. To bless the people around you, to ponder them. To celebrate life that will win over death.

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News From The North said…
Check out Colossians Remixed. It talks a lot about Post-modernity and empire. Quite a good book/commentary and its by a Canadian friend of the good Tom Wright.
August 15, 2008 at 6:54 AM
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