There is a cute joke on Christian denominations that I would like to relate: "A fire starts in the auditorium where ministers of various denominations are having a meeting. A Methodist pastor jumps up and yells "Fire!." A Baptist pastor jumps up and yells "Water!" then a Presbyterian pastor jumps up and yells "Order!!" Traditionally Presbyterians rely on "order" in everything, Their services are ordered, as is their prayers and their polity. Their doctrine is precision unleashed as the Westminster Standards are unmatched in, through precise wordage, saying a whole lot in a few words.
The topic here is not churches but the exasperating situation that we find ourselves in today. Postmodernism is anything but precise. In fact it works feverishly to confound order. The lack of definition enables everyone to freely structure their own rules of interpretation. In fact, order can be an enemy. Where is the order in the recent senatorial election in Minnesota? You can bring in votes from precincts that were not turned in on election night! You can deny counting votes that came from a source that probably would go the other way! And finally, you can take the lead in votes and then arbitrarily say, "Well that's that."! Twice, on major financial legislation, we have been told that a decision had to be made "right away" without legitimate debate and analysis.
I remarked in a previous blog how academic debate teams often give the student the opportunity to change the topic and to utilize emotion over logic. Was their any order or precision at all in the vast efforts the Democrats made in registering anything that breathes and some things that don't to win the last election. This is something that we need to teach our children and improve in ourselves. Postmodern liberalism thrives on the sentence that you can't really answer because you cannot understand it. We need to get in the habit of stopping the conversation right then and there to challenge the logic and pertinence to what was said. The worst thing we can do is simply enter the conversation on their terms for the result is logic on one side and jabberwocky on the other. We can practice improving in this area by continuously analyzing our own conversations, even with our children.
The topic here is not churches but the exasperating situation that we find ourselves in today. Postmodernism is anything but precise. In fact it works feverishly to confound order. The lack of definition enables everyone to freely structure their own rules of interpretation. In fact, order can be an enemy. Where is the order in the recent senatorial election in Minnesota? You can bring in votes from precincts that were not turned in on election night! You can deny counting votes that came from a source that probably would go the other way! And finally, you can take the lead in votes and then arbitrarily say, "Well that's that."! Twice, on major financial legislation, we have been told that a decision had to be made "right away" without legitimate debate and analysis.
I remarked in a previous blog how academic debate teams often give the student the opportunity to change the topic and to utilize emotion over logic. Was their any order or precision at all in the vast efforts the Democrats made in registering anything that breathes and some things that don't to win the last election. This is something that we need to teach our children and improve in ourselves. Postmodern liberalism thrives on the sentence that you can't really answer because you cannot understand it. We need to get in the habit of stopping the conversation right then and there to challenge the logic and pertinence to what was said. The worst thing we can do is simply enter the conversation on their terms for the result is logic on one side and jabberwocky on the other. We can practice improving in this area by continuously analyzing our own conversations, even with our children.
