As always, Ravi does such a gracious job of articulating truth, in the context of the question, "Is America Abandoning God?" Please watch this enjoyable video, I have typed out some quotations below.
"There is a God shaped vaccum, but with these trememdous attacks from a rabid secularism, kind of attractive spirituality without god, collapse economically, geopolitical manueverings in the name of religions, all of these have had a role to play in disallusioning people, but somewhere in the deep recesses of our own thinking, we don't like the feeling of being left alone. None of us does. And we want a voice from somewhere and the least we are saying in the coming to these meetings is, "is there legitimacy to this?"
"It is in vain oh men that you week within yourselves a cure for your miseries. All your insight only leads you to the knowledge that it is not in yourselves that you will discover the true and the good. The philosophers promised them to you and they've not been able to keep their promise. They do not know what your true good is or what your true state is. How then could they have provided for you a cure for the ills which they have not even understood? Your principle maladies are pride which cuts you off from God and sensuality which binds you to the earth and they have done nothing but foster at least one of these two maladies. If they have given God for you for an object it has been to pander to your pride. They made you think that you were like Him and resemble Him in your nature, and those who have grasped the vanity of such pretentions have case you down into the other abyss by making you believe that your future is like that of the best of the field and have led you to seek your good in lust, which is the lot of the animals."
"If the message changes it can be compromised ... give up all substance of the Gospel to win them over, what are you winning them over, to?"
"People are equal, ideas are unequal. Let ideas be pit against each other, but don't take the egalitarianism from the person."
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