"Campus East of Eden"
("The BabelAcademia Nuts")
"The Cosmos is all there ever was or will ever
be." --Carl Sagan
"There are no sources of knowledge of the universe other than carefully
scrutinized observations---in other words what we call research---and alongside
it no knowledge derived from revelation." -Sigmund Freud
"Darwin's vision of nature was...fundamentally a religious vision."
--James Moore, historian (conclusion of PBS's "Evolution" Series, Episode One)
"Campus East of Eden"
( In Babel's High Academies)
We're gliding through The Lovely Garden
O, Human Reason...be our Guide!
Revelation's long discarded;
And Freud implores.....
"Enjoy the ride!"
Here the trees are heavy-laden,
And the fruit is plump and sweet....
Science is our Red Delicious
Our McIntosh?
Charles Darwin's Teat.
Science is The True Religion!
Protestants we can't allow!
Humanism's Holy Edict...
To Darwin's "Tree of Life" we bow.
"Deity"'s a wish Fulfillment,
For "Perfect Dad" we never had...
A Sublime Psycho-Neurosis,
A Mass Delusionary Fad.
The Garden Story?...
Gawd! How foolish!
Evolve beyond
that Fairy Tale!
Real truth is much more pluralistic...
The Missing Link's our Holy Grail.
Darwin proved beyond a shadow
Of a doubt that Tale's a Lie!...
Science tells us
sure as shootin'
No "Father God"'s up in the sky.
"Revelation"'s Fruit is rotten...
Indeed, it's rotten to the core!
Our most highly educated,...
"The Wise" don't buy it anymore!
Really, Man!
Just trust your instincts!
And swing on down out of that tree...
Darwin proved we're
former monkeys!
So drop that Hairy Tale for me!
(Pay close attention, Mr. Cheetah,
Trogladyte...Backwoods Bufoon...
Mr. Darwin's our True Prophet....
"Erectus Ho-Most High Baboon"!)
Truth is in The Science Textbook.
Your "Garden Tale" has been revised.
The Bible's Message?
Worse than lacking!....
Might I suggest...It's
fossilized!
Carl Sagan said the Bible's Bogus...
(You mutant, oddball, backward twit)
So hang it up!
(Genetic Throwback)
Don't be so naturally unfit.
All there is is what you see here...
That's what our Major Prophets said.
Imagine, Sir... There is no Heaven;
And when you die, my friend....
You're Dead!
So, that's it!
Carl Sagan said so!
And High Priest Darwin said so, too!
Comrades Marx and Stalin "got it"...
(So what the heck is wrong with you!?)
Their Solution?
Well, ....it's
Final.
(It's time you climbed out of your tree!)
We can't tolerate this nonsense!
(From you Jehovah-Chimpanzees!)
The Final Answer?...
Bio-Science!
Yes! Bio-Logic...That's the Key!
Human Reason's
not an Idol,
If "Mind of Mankind"'s Deity!
So there you have it...
Science proves it.
The Pagan-Sagan Liturgy.
A Metaphysic Revolution!
The Fruit of Evolution's Tree!
* * * *
Now we know both Good and Evil !
All truly modern men agree.
Science leads us to Nirvana...
That Book we're burning?
......."Romans Three".
* * *
Lord, the apple that we're eating,
Is really not Your Daily Bread.
And the world in which we're living,
Has no clue, Lord, why You bled.
You made us in imago Deo,
.....Though scholars scoff at such a claim,
Here in
"higher education",
Where "The Wise" deny Your Name.
Prophets Darwin, Freud and Sagan
Still teach tall tale profundities,
On this Campus East of Eden,
In Babel's High Academies.
* * * *
What's the lesson we've been fighting...
The one we just don't want to see?
Luke's Gospel....Chapter Eighteen,
Verse?....Thirty-five through forty-three.
Lord, give us Grace to turn those pages,
Give us Grace as You pass by...
Give us Grace to cry for Mercy!
Help us, Lord, resist The Lie!
Give us Grace like Bartimeus,
To see the Fallen State we're in!
Give us Grace to see The Blindness,
And to confess our Guilt and Sin!
Give us Grace to see you, Father,
In The Truth..... Eternal Son.
Holy Spirit, reveal Calv'ry,
Where by Grace the Vict'ry's won!
* * * *
* * * *
"Humanism has become the most Messianic of the idolatrous religions of the
West."--Herbert Schlossberg
"The academy is in large part a reservation for the lost tribes of radicalism
past." - John Neuhaus
"As it is written:
'There is no one righteous, not even one;
there is no one who understands;
no one who seeks God.
All have turned away...' "
(Romans 3: 10-12a...)
"He called out, 'Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!' " (Luke 18: 38)
* * * *
"But now a righteousness from God apart from law, has been made known, to
which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness comes through faith
in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned
and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus...." (Romans 3: 21-24....)
"A Sweet
Marshmallow Blintze?"
or
("This Talk of Sin is Not Productive!")
"Elijah went before the people
and said, 'How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God,
follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.'
"But the people said nothing." --(1 Kings 18: 20,21)
"Making moral decisions is always a terribly confusing thing---to someone
without principles." --G.K. Chesterton
"I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the
mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." --G.K. Chesterton
"But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know
it and because no lie comes from the truth." --(1John 2: 20,21)
"A Sweet Marshmallow
Blintze?"
or
("This Talk of Sin is Not Productive!")
"White"'s a concept we should bury;
It's way too radical and 'clean'!
Pure 'n' Holy's unproductive...
Those two thoughts we find obscene.
And 'Black'?.....
That too is too offensive.
We don't believe there's such a thing!
Evil's just an evil notion...
U.S. of Gray!
Let Freedom Ring!
We must remain quite open-minded,
'Cause Open Minds can save the day!
Let this Liberal Fog surround you...
Pleasant dreams, Sir...
"Vive La Gray!"
We now believe it's always better
To split the difference we advise.
Sir, that Fence is there to Straddle...
Our Chosen Way's to compromise!
"Tolerate!" must be our message.
We must approve whatever, man....
Saying "No!" Just isn't caring...
Accomodate!... The best you can.
We need to be more soft 'n' cuddly,
Yes,... more sensitive and nice.
Ratchet down your expectations,
While redefining words like 'vice'.
* * * *
Daily Bread?...Now serving Milquetoast.
Just have a seat there on the Fence.
A little Jell-O for dessert, Sir?
Or a sweet Marshmallow Blintze?
There, there, my friend,
We'll make it better.....
This Puffy Muffin Plate's for you!
Pick 'n' Choose your favorite flavor.
This Muffin's easier to chew!
Nothing here is hard to swallow...
Yes, "Least Resistance" is the key.
Sliding down so Nice 'n' Easy...
(And our Sticky Buns are free!)
* * * *
We should be accommodating.
We shouldn't judge each other so!
We must eliminate discomfort,
So "Guilt" and "Shame" just have to go!
We're the "Neutral Undecided's"
Our Path is Broad and very Wide!
We're meandering all over.....
But mostly Left and side to side.
We're 'The Middle-of-the Roaders'.
We're pretty sure we know what's best.
This talk of "Sin" is not productive!
My friend, it fails "The Global Test".
We're Broad-Minded Liberal Thinkers,
And, yes, we're on a Noble Quest!
And we think we're On To Something!
And we think our thinking's best.
Still,... we think,... we'll withhold judgment.
(To judge, The Left says, isn't right!)
So now we're left right where we started...
Foggy Grays...No Black or White.
We're "The Nuanced Flippy-Floppers",
The wishy-washy, "Vaguely Sage"
Quite adaptable and plugged-in,
To The Spirit of the Age.
You see, our Vision's very Dreamy,
A Nice Nirvana Reverie...
Strawberry Fields that stretch forever;
Where all can rest most comfortably.
A Pantheistic Panacea!
A Cool Utopia!.......Hooray!
Where we can "Let It Be!"..."Imagine"!
And John/Paul dreaming Marx The Way.
* * * * *
Lord, Elijah warned the people
To choose the True and Narrow Way...
He said, "Don't waver any longer!"
Choose God or Baal....
And don't delay!
The wishy-washy Double-Minded,
Are always tossed upon the seas.
Lord, give Grace and be Our Anchor,
As You place us on our knees.
* * * *
"Beliefs formed in the post-modern climate of openess and tolerance create a
firewall against genuine and substantive dialogue about spiritual and moral
truth."--Jim Leffel
"I hate double-minded men,
but I love your law.
You are my refuge and my shield;
I have put my hope in your
word." -(Psalm 119: 113,114)
"But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is
like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think
he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in
all he does." -(James 1:8)
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