HT: Jack Miller
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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The revolution won’t happen; the would-be revolutionaries will be too splintered, due to stuff such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4
I’m not so sure, Dan. The nation-state world order that resolved the Thirty Year’s War at the Peace of Westphalia has a beginning, a middle, and an end just like every other epoch of history.
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
[To the melody of “Precious Memories”]
Prescient memories, how they startle
So depressing, sickly droll
Good is evil, evil’s dandy
Come, Lord Jesus, take my soul…
MORE prescience from James Michener’s “The Source” — spoken by a Muslim archaeologist character to an Israeli Jew (Holocaust survivor) and American Catholic:
“…Judaism had its day, and if the Jews had been smart, when Christianity came along they’d have joined up. Christianity has had its day, and if you were intelligent you’d both join the newest religion. Islam!” He bowed low and said, “Soon all Africa will be Islamic. And all Black America. I see India giving up Hinduism while Burma and Thailand surrender Buddhism. Gentlemen, I represent the religion of the future. I offer you salvation.”