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 In the article "What's Really At Stake," Rod Dreher writes - "I find that the more I talk about The Benedict Option, the clearer this becomes to me. For example, someone here said yesterday that what we are really dealing with in these various crises is what C.S. Lewis called 'the abolition of man.' That is to say, when we argue about, say, LGBT issues, what we’re really arguing about (at least as Christians) is what it means to be human." He goes on to say - "At the heart of this debate are rival ideas of what man is, and beyond that, what matter is. You cannot get more radical than this. Does matter have intrinsic meaning, or does it only mean what we say it means? If it has intrinsic meaning, then how can we know what that meaning is? If it doesn’t have intrinsic meaning, then are there any limits on how we treat it?" The rising worldview is Post-Modernism, in which you're free to define your own reality. If mankind and matter do not have objective reality and intrinsic meaning, then of course an adult male is right to declare that he is a six-year-old Chinese girl, so you must bend down and speak to "her" in Mandarin Chinese. Or he could declare that he is a telephone pole and you must treat him accordingly. All bets are off. Matter doesn't matter any more. The struggle is no more between the Traditionalist and Modernist worldviews. Dreher writes - "the real fight right now is between Modernists and Post-Modernists, but it’s not simply because Trads have been pushed to the margins of the public square. It is because within the ranks of the Trads, we have absorbed Modernist ideas so thoroughly that our own people don’t understand how weak our position is, and how little sense it makes to ordinary Christians who have been catechized by post-Christian culture." Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |