The Real Truths Are Ancient

The other day I picked up a copy of Poor Richard's 1733 Almanack in our gift store and I read Benjamin Franklin's wisdom--"if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas." Technically, I'm not sure if Franklin was re-stating an ancient proverb, or if this was one of his own, but the economy of pure distilled truth seems very Franklinesque to me. The colonials had this much down cold: you are, to a large measure, a product of the company you keep.



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The Real Truths are Ancient, Part I (continued)

Two days ago I referenced "Christians and agnostics who quote 'Judge Not.'" The fact is that everyone in the modern world, of every persuasion, is judged by a Judeo-Christian standard. The world dates its time by Christ. The whole failed socialist collectivist experiment of the 20th century had its roots in a Christian heresy. Even proud atheists like Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins owe their sense of fair play to culturally inherited rabbinic or catechetical teaching. When you argue with Bill or Richard, they assume you won't lie and you assume they won't either. You assume they won't kill you when you win the argument and they asssume they aren't free to kill you either--when they lose the argument. The ten commandments are written on the hearts of men, and you have to try very hard to ignore them.

Unfortunately, evil lives to confuse.


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Lockton is practicing Pachebel's Canon downstairs, a nice way to start the day. Now he's gone on to a minuet. Lockton is our sight reader and Samuel is our play-anything-by-ear almost-immediately musician. Nicholas is sawing away on the fiddle a lot more these days and, at house church yesterday morning, a friend's child knocked out a flawless "Be Thou My Vision." I guess you get these little "City on a Hill" glimpses every once in a while to make up for the ubiquitous grunge of even Christian pop music these days.

As I wrote that paragraph, I skipped over to Facebook and watched an advertisement pop up on the right for cyber-profile art of some sort. Over the image of a black-bustiered bimbo, layers of studded-leather were draped into place, along with the words "explore your dark side."

Why? Why dress, look, and act like a loser?



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