Otto Scott, Christian Revolution part 2

On the second mp3 part 2 of the “The Great Christian Revolution” Scott works with the thousand years from 400 to about AD 1400 the age of faith, but better known by the name the world attached to it, The Dark Ages. The world hates this time period. It constantly tries to give glory to man for any advances in civilization.

This talk points out how most of the basic understandings of freedom and civil rights sprang forth from the Christian faith. This was absolutely unknown to the world of antiquity. Again, things we just take for granted. Prior to this no ruler or state ever saw itself as limited by an outside force. This talk is a little longer and there is more to wrap your brain around.

He does show how Humanism, the Renaissance, started twisting Gods truths and turned man back towards paganism. Mans autonomy from God. Which always leads states see no limit to their authority. This started a glide path that is still unfolding, it is part of the culture we are swimming in. The exception was what sprung out of the Reformation.

Scott draws a contrast of how the Spaniards of the 1500’s , even with the catholic church as messed up as it was, when coming to the Americas and seeing what the Aztecs were doing, they knew that this was a religious, a faith problem. All this human sacrificing going on.

But that the British by the 1880’s, (not that long ago) in Africa (I thought of you Greg) had already lost so much of the Christian understanding of life that they only saw the external problems ,witchcraft, human sacrifice, etc and no longer understood, that this, is a religious faith problem. By late 1800’s they thought the black magic and human sacrifice was just poor manners. Boorish behavior.

So Abortion is not a legal problem, it is a faith, religous problem?

These two mp3 are a enjoyable, quick way, to get back some of our stolen context of early Christianity.