What are you reading?

DragonFox91 said:

I was reading a little booklet I have on what the Bible says on life on other planets. It started w/ some history. Here are my notes:

Scientists are interested in ET's.
Just b/c a flying object is unidentified, that doesn't mean it's aliens
Once people believed the sun is a star & there's other stars w/ other planets, it became possible to think of life elsewhere.
Mormons started to teach the God of the Bible was born on another planet. Sci-fi stories expanded in the early 1900s. There were sci-fi movies. People believed in Martian invasions b/c they already believed Martians existed. Scientists were inspired by the sci-fi stories & thought they saw civilizations on Mars.
We can trace people seeing flying saucers to Kenneth Anrold seeing them in 1947.

I've been listening to videos on how Satan manipulates thru history & I find ties there w/ the booklet is discussing.

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High Fidelity said:

I have a pile of books on the go, but this is arriving tomorrow and I can't wait.


"Many people have a sense that the Western World is in decline and that our society is fragmenting around us. Many people have an ominous sense that we are living at the end of a civilised age and are moving into something far less pleasant and humane. But fewer people understand why this is happening.

In this new book, Jamie Franklin argues that the reason for this decline is because we have jettisoned the underlying belief system that gave birth to the Western world - and the Western mind - in the first place: Christianity. He argues that there is a logical and inevitable link between the decline of Christianity and the decline of the West.

As our metaphysical commitment to Christianity declines, so does our commitment to the benefits that came to us from Christianity. Through captivating argument, he demonstrates how this plays out in the scientific realm, which has abandoned objectivity for dogmatism; in the ethical realm, which is eliminating humanity from its own formulations; and in the political scene, as it moves away from the democratic principle towards a neo-marxist influenced, nihilistic technocracy that threatens to eliminate human culture, distinctiveness and agency in the pursuit of a globalist utopia.

In so doing, Franklin touches on contemporary political conversations that are exercising the public imagination such as abortion, euthanasia, transhumanism, and the rebirth of the totalitarian impulse in Western democracies.

Only a revival of Christianity can reverse these trends. This book urges the Church to take seriously its own commitment to the metaphysical and ethical presuppositions of its own faith. But also acknowledges the great challenge that Christianity faces as it threatens to be overwhelmed by the rising tide of secular nihilism that may yet engulf the Western World."

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