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“The Library Thing” is a non-profit, open community for sharing knowledge about books. It provides a great way to promote reading, which is so highly-neglected in today’s MTV world of fast-paced “blurbs” and disjointed Twitters.
Intellectual decline is a well-documented phenomena today, as measured by the ability to read:
- 50 percent of American adults are unable to read an eighth grade level book.1
- The educational careers of 25 to 40 percent of American children are imperiled because they don’t read well enough, quickly enough, or easily enough.2
- More than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level – far below the level needed to earn a living wage.3
- 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.4
Proclaim the Revolution!
It is no coincidence that God used the Bible (which means, “The Book”) to communicate with humanity. Unlike word-of-mouth, the written word lends itself to widespread distribution, which makes it our most-powerful weapon for inciting Revolution. Even more important, the written word is subject to verification and objective truth, unlike other “scriptures” people are trusting around the world.
Especially today it is vital for Christians to stand out as Revolutionaries with literate thinking (as opposed to illiterate speculation), which gives our Revolution a respectable intelligence. Postmodern American minds are confused with imaginary religions lacking any literature to support their positions. These New Age religions are so fragile, they can’t be defended. By contrast, as Christians we have a long recorded history of God’s activities and revelation to humanity, and nobody has been able to punch a hole in it even after thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of scholars devoting their entire lives to finding a weakness. Still “The Book” stands, unspoiled and completely intact.
I dare anyone to offer any proof that the Bible contains any errors. I’ve spent a lifetime tracing these so-called errors which everyone supposes to exist, and I have yet to find one with any credibility. But if I wasn’t well-read, my own claims would be quite ridiculous. Reading makes it possible to take strong stands based on facts.
This is what the Bible calls the Kerygma, a Greek word translated “the proclamation”. Our Revolution is not an idea and it’s not a speculative philosophy like the crazy imagination of Karl Marx. Rather, the Kerygma is an historical fact, and its history is recorded for us in “The Book”.
What a difference it makes to be able to make a bold proclamation rather than a weak suggestion about Jesus Christ! Weak suggestions don’t change lives or challenge the deception and ignorance that alienates humans from their Creator. And all these Postmodern attacks against Jesus Christ are so flimsy to an educated mind–educated, that is, in the broad literature and histories of humanity, which also must include Christian literature. Postmodernism is woefully ignorant of the Christian worldview. These new, imaginary religions are attractive only in the absence of the Kerygma.
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Winter is the best time to curl up with a book and get armed to proclaim something worth listening to! Join us at The Library Thing and start sharing your library and knowledge of books with the other brothers and sisters.
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Footnotes:
- Jonathan Kozol, Illiterate America; as reported on The Literacy Company Web. [↩]
- The Committee on Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children of the National Research Council, 1998 reported on The Literacy Company Web. [↩]
- National Institute for Literacy, Fast Facts on Literacy, 2001, reported on The Literacy Company Web. [↩]
- From Book Reading Statistics in the USA [↩]
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Interesting posts you have, though I think Christianity is dead and will be redeemed and brought to fruition and perfection through Thelema. Check out my blog at http://christianityisdead.wordpress.com/ if you will. Love is the law, love under will.
Thanks for stopping by. I looked at your blog, but I don’t understand… You write, “We must have faith! This is what innumerable Christians say & parrot all day long…” but then you go on to say, “If we have faith, it is faith in ourselves.”
I think “faith in ourselves” is parroted much more frequently than anything Christians might say, isn’t this true?
Besides, my friend, I think you’re misquoting Christians. I think we would actually say, “We must have faith in Jesus Christ!” Additionally, you probably don’t realize that “blind faith” is rejected in the Bible as foolishness. “Faith” means “dependence” in the Bible, not “belief”, and obviously, “We all need someone we can lean on!” as Mick Jagger put it.
And you’re definitely incorrect in this statement: “This blind faith has lead to the indiscriminate slaughter of people who simply do not espouse belief in the same God.” Didn’t you know that Christianity is the most loving, peaceful, anti-war, anti-killing movement to hit the planet!
Jesus taught, “If they hit you, turn the other cheek.” Please tell me what other religion or philosophy ever taught anything similar? For almost four centuries Christianity grew to millions by Jesus’ peaceful, non-bloody teachings, and real Christianity continues to grow the same way.
What’s confusing you is the fact that the Roman Empire hijacked the “Christianity” name. The emperor (Constantine and his descendants) then proceeded to kill as Romans always did. But they stole the name of the person they crucified!
I don’t understand why nobody helps us Christians disentangle the name of Jesus Christ from the long history of government hijackers and usurpers! Roman Emperors and European monarchs simply imitated Constantine’s crime! Here’s the historical record:
a) First they tried killing us.
b) Then they stole our name. (Proof it was stolen: “Christianity” since Constantine is violent, bloody and ruthless–the exact opposite of real Christianity before Constantine.)
c) And now everyone blames us for the crimes and genocides committed by those thieves, while Constantine and the other monarchs get off the hook!
The tragic fact which goes unreported on your blog is that Christians were always the first ones to get killed when one of those murderous monarchs stole our name! So we get it at both ends: killed and persecuted by government hijackers, and then blamed by everyone for killing and persecution! So we “turn the other cheek” and we let the cruelty, such as that in your blog, to continue. (And I’m sure your blog is merely repeating the hijackers’ propaganda and it’s not intentional on your part. By the way, Christians aren’t the only ones to get defined by the propaganda of corrupt governments like the Romans–anyone should question the government version of “truth”, especially from the Dark Ages, for God’s sake! And from whence commeth these versions of Christianity that advocate killing innocent people, I ask, except from the Dark Ages?)
But it does seem quite disgraceful, I think, to continue aiding the monsters and persecutors by perpetrating their hoax. Won’t you please help us?
I don’t mean to breed conflict or be antagonistic but a person can’t love in a vacuum. When the follower of Thelema says to “love” exactly what are they loving? In a roundabout way I think they’re saying to love yourself. Is that really love?
If you say it is, I think we have an equivocation of words and I wondered if you would please define the term as you understand it.
Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card!
That’s real cute, Kalie!
Interestingly enough, as a free-willed Christian, I fulfill the requirement of Thelemic doctrine- do what you will.
In doing what I will, I choose to follow Christ.