Pagans Ancient and Modern
Albert Mohler has a wonderful excerpt from a commentary by Joy Davidman (Mrs. C. S. Lewis) on Pagans Ancient and Modern:
The old pagans had to choose between a brilliant, jangling, irresponsible, chaotic universe, alive with lawless powers, and the serene and ordered universe of God and law. We modern pagans have to choose between that divine order, and the gray, dead, irresponsible, chaotic universe of atheism. And the tragedy is that we may make that choice without knowing it — not by clear conviction but by vague drifting, not by denying God, but by losing interest in him.
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Ah, yes, but the modern pagans are so ‘liberated’ aren’t they? Liberated from beauty, goodness, truth, peace, from seeing the world around them as a vibrant testament to the fact that they were created by a God with purpose for His creation, one worthy of worship (for who He IS, rather than what He does).
Ah, to be unemcumbered from the freedom (read: ability) to do and enjoy what is right… THAT is the glory of our modern pagan.
They have been aided and abetted by the Church itself, since these same freedoms have been gradually adopted by those guardians of the sacred scriptures who continue to keep them ‘safely out of’ the ‘embarassment’ of public viewing.
You’ve got some very good posts. I’ve just started to read through them. My wife (PhileoSophia) has linked you, and I believe I shall, too.
Keep ‘em coming.
God Bless!
There’s no worse slavery than the kind we don’t recognize. As Davidman says, “we may make that choice without knowing it,” thinking that we are liberated from obedience, when we really just enslave ourselves to sin.
Or, as Paul puts it, “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?” (Romans 6:16)