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Impossible People: Christian Courage and the Struggle for the Soul of Civilization
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Os Guinness
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The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever, Christians must resist the negative cultural forces of our day with fortitude and winsomeness. What is needed is followers of Christ who are willing to face reality without flinching and respond with a faithfulness that is unwavering. Os Guinness describes these Christians as impossible people, those who have hearts that can melt with compassion, but with faces like flint and backbones of steel who are unmanipulable, unbribable, undeterrable and unclubbable, without ever losing the gentleness, the mercy, the grace and the compassion of our Lord. Few accounts of the challenge of today are more realistic, and few calls to Christian courage are more timely, resoluteand hopeful. Guinness argues that we must engage secularism and atheism in new ways, confronting competing ideas with discernment and fresh articulation of the faith. Christians are called to be impossible people, full of courage and mercy in challenging times.

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The Lord said, Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one anothers speech. So the L ORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the L ORD confused the language of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:6-9

If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?

Psalm 11:3

I am the L ORD , that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another.

Isaiah 42:8

Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, I am a god,
I sit in the seat of gods
In the heart of the seas;
Yet you are a man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God.

Ezekiel 28:2

I heard a mighty voice crying from the elements of the world: We cannot move and complete our accustomed rounds as we should do according to the precepts of our Creator. For humankind, because of its corruptions, spins us about like the sails of a windmill. And so now we stink from pestilence and from hunger after justice. As often as the elements of the world are violated by ill-treatment, God will cleanse them by the sufferings and hardships of humankind.... All of creation God gives to humankind to use. But if this privilege is misused, Gods justice permits creation to punish humanity.

Hildegard of Bingen,
Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen

I have placed you at the very center of the world, so that from that vantage point you may with greater ease glance around you on all the world contains. We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer. It will be in your power to descend to the lower, brutish forms of life; you will be able, through your own decision, to rise again to the superior orders whose life is divine.

Pico della Mirandola,
Oration on the Dignity of Man

Man must... venerate the state as a secular deity.

George Hegel,
The Philosophy of Right

To be a nation... is the religion of our time. Leave all the little religions and perform the great duty to the single highest, and unite yourself in it to one belief high above the pope or Luther. That is the ultimate religion.

Ernst Arndt,
Geist der Zeit

The beginning, middle and
end of religion is MAN .

Ludwig Feuerbach,
The Essence of Christianity

Man is free only if he owes his existence to himself.... Philosophy makes no secret of it. Prometheus admission I hate all gods is its own admission, its own motto against all gods, heavenly and earthly, who do not acknowledge the consciousness of man as the supreme divinity.

Karl Marx,
doctoral thesis

In some isolated corner of the universe, poured out shimmeringly into unaccountable solar systems, there was once a star upon which clever animals invented knowledge. It was the most arrogant and hypocritical minute of world history: but it was only a minute. After nature drew a few breaths, the star grew stiff with cold, and the clever animals had to die.

Friedrich Nietzsche,
Truth and Lie in a Morally Disengaged Sense

Should I eat and drink, only in order to hunger and thirst again, and eat and drink, merely until the open grave under my feet swallows me up as a meal for the earth? Should I create more beings like myself, so that they can eat and drink and die, and so they can leave behind beings of their own, so that they do the same as I have already done? What is the point of this continual, self-contained and ever-returning circle, this repetitive game that always starts again in the same way, in which everything is, in order to fade away, and fades away in order to return again as it wasthis monster continually devouring itself in order to reproduce itself, and reproduce itself in order to devour itself?

Johann Gottlieb Fichte,
The Vocation of Man

The West has lost Christ, and that is why it
is dying; that is the only reason.

Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Notebooks

Where there is no God, there is no man either.

Nicholas Berdyaev,
ANew Middle Ages?

Once acclimatized to space-living, it is unlikely that man will stop until he has roamed over and colonized most of the sidereal universe, or that even this will be the end. Man will not ultimately be content to be parasitic on the stars, but will invade them and organize them for his own purposes.... The stars cannot be allowed to continue in their old way, but will be turned into efficient heat engines.... By intelligent organization, the life of the universe could probably be prolonged to many millions of millions of times what it would be without organization.

J. D. Bernal,
The World, the Flesh and the Devil

Some day we will realize that the prime duty, the inescapable citizen of the right type is to leave his or her blood behind him in the world; and that we have no business to permit the perpetuation of citizens of the wrong type. The great problem of civilization is to secure a relative increase of the valuable as compared with the less valuable or noxious elements in the population.... I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding, and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done.... The emphasis should be on getting desirable people to breed.

Theodore Roosevelt,
Twisted Eugenics

It is a curious but neglected fact that the very types which in all kindness should be obliterated from the human stock, have been permitted to reproduce themselves and to perpetuate their group, succored by the policy of indiscriminate charity of warm hearts uncontrolled by cool heads.... There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent and that is to ask the government to first take the burden of the insane and feebleminded from your back.... Sterilization is the solution.

Margaret Sanger,
Need for Birth Control in America

It is only by believing in God that we can criticize the Government. Once abolish God, and the Government becomes God. The truth is that irreligion is the opium of the people. Wherever the people do not believe in something beyond the world, they will worship the world. But, above all, they worship the strongest thing in the world.

G. K. Chesterton,
Christendom in Dublin

Nature is cruel, therefore we too are entitled to be cruel. When I send the flower of German youth into the steel hail of the next war without feeling the slightest regret over the precious German blood that is being spilled, should I not also have the right to eliminate millions of an inferior race that multiplies like vermin?

Adolf Hitler,
in Joachim Fest, Hitler, 1974

There still remains only God to protect Man against Man. Either we will serve him in spirit and in truth or we shall enslave ourselves ceaselessly, more and more, to the monstrous idol we have made with our own hands to our own image and likeness.

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