Matthew Culloton is positing these cryptic, scathing things about cronyism, others are positing about mediocre white men...i havent been to a national conf since Kansas City so Im kinda out of it
I don't know about you, but I have an incredibly hard time reconciling the death-worshiping hellscape in which we live with harboring any kind of "peace of Christ" in my heart and mind. Dominant worldly values celebrate factional tribalism that outweighs any sort of logical consistency, moral integrity, or tolerability. The world eugenically celebrates the right to murder children simply for being afflicted with down syndrome because human value is really just a function of how much parents want to bother with rearing difficult children...to say nothing of more "ordinary" pre-natal murders. Otherwise good people leave the salvifically necessary Church in droves because of horrifyingly evil examples by "believers," or because the dark, confusing world leads them astray even when their intentions are mostly good. The world's true god is the self and anything that should violate its absolute sovereignty is seen as a trespass, no matter how ridiculous.
And we who cling to belief in the absolute value of human life, regardless of weakness, dependency, or the tribalistic convenience of extinguishing it, do nothing but beat our heads on the wall and lose, and lose, and lose some more while the Enemy gains ground, even in the hearts of our most beloved friends and family.
They say the next world is better. I say: I resent being stuck in this one. Yet I'm forbidden from even *coveting* relief from its shackles! For a myriad of good reasons. How are we supposed to have hope for anything before Christ returns? And without it, how are we supposed to live, let alone *spread*, the Gospel which we're obligated to both live and spread?
I'm afraid to bring children into the world for the mathematically likely fear of losing them to worldly corruption, and honestly, if I did...I'd hardly even blame them. It's so easy to be deceived, even when trying not to be.