Catholic and Enjoying It!
on the monstrous evil of creating human beings from three genetic donors.
The longer I watch the “progress” of the West, the less I believe that Islam is going to carry the day. My reasons are both practical and biblical. Islam is technologically backward. They have to steal our stuff in order to even launch attacks on the West. That doesn’t mean they can’t inflict real damage. I won’t be surprised if some Islamic nut manaqes to nuke a city or five. But get us mad enough (by, for instance, nuking a city or five) and we will finally retaliate with such devastating force that the Islamic world will not recover.
No, what worries me is (as you might expect) tempered by what I can make of biblical revelation. We know very little about how history will go. But one thing we are assured of is this:
Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness * is revealed, the son of perdition, 4* who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 2 Thess 2:3-4)
So lemme ask ya: Do you really see such a figure arising in the Islamic world? Somebody who *claims to be God*? Sorry, but it ain’t happening–ever. Islam has lotsa problems, but not that one. A debased post-Christian culture, possibly alloyed with some Son of Heaven lunacy from Asia, seems to me to be a much more obvious hatchery for such a one. We in the West are already begging for a secular Messiah (albeit only in a sort of play or pretense at present). But, under a small amount of societal stress, we would be happy to anoint such figure if we thought it would save our skins. Indeed, it’s not hard to imagine the West reckoning a fiercely anti-Catholic savior as a deliverer if things keep going on as they are.
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