Who is this?
Aug 5th, 2008 by Randy Toman
What is man?
Socrates said,
“As long as I have not succeeded in learning to know myself I have no time for meddling with other questions that seem to me trifles when compared with this.”
Herman Dooyeweerd, “In the Twilight of Western Thought” (1960) Page 173 quotes Socrates in his chapter; What is Man?
Man has shifted his responsibility for his behavior upon an impersonal society, a technological age were bureaucracy flourishes as something that is efficient and corrective. As a result of our technological age society has lost all grasp of morals, ethics and we teeter on the brink of self-destruction. Man has been desensitized to the point were personal interaction is portrayed only as sex and lust with true affection for other human beings no longer existing and we have both society and the social network of church and religion becoming depersonalized.
We have secularized man to the point that even the humanist has started to question reason and the fact that it may not have enough reasoning in and of it-self to save man. Man’s reasonability is reverting to power and that power through deception will further destroy man’s image and confuse the social fabric to were man will not know who or what he is.
Let me just inject this: Reasoning cannot truly save man and man will not know himself accept through God but that is for another time, we have this for now.
”We have this strange phenomenon occurring right before our eyes and no one is recognizing it. How is it that O’bama can talk of “Change” equating it to “Hope” all the while shifting the very base of power to himself and his control? How is this? How can the race card be played and nobody will call him and it evilness? O’bama’s evilness and lack of experience for the office of president shows and it doesn’t matter what color he is, because color doesn’t make for evilness but a persons soul, heart, and mind does. We had better know this man, even if we don’t know ourselves. What he stands for will serve as us if he is elected.