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Essays

"Ego Fog's Amazing Grays"
or
 ("Po-Mo's Sacra-Mental Case!")

"The Cosmos is all that ever is, was or will be." --Carl Sagan
 
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 "[The universe]....has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pointless indifference." --Richard Dawkins
 
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    "...they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden."  (Genesis 3:8)
 
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"Even without his bigotry, we could not expect balanced judgment or logical consistency from Dawkins, because he is a man in a muddle...There is Dawkins the Humanist, Dawkins the Reasoner, and Dawkins the Darwinist. Each sits on a different branch, sawing away at the branches on which the others sit. Dawkins the Humanist preaches, inveighs, denounces; he bristles with moral indignation. Dawkins the Darwinist tells him, however, that his humanism is speciesist vanity, his moral standards arbitrary, and his indignation empty. Dawkins the Humanist rebels, proclaiming himself (in human affairs) passionately anti-Darwinian. Dawkins the Reasoner joins the rebellion, declaring that our minds allow us to transcend our genetic inheritance. Dawkins the Darwinist answers with lethal effect that our brains 'were only designed to understand the mundane details of how to survive in the stone-age African savannah.' " --Stephen Barr (physicist)   
 
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   "On every side you can feel the stranglehold  of this new methodology...It is like suffocating in a particularly bad London fog. And just as a fog cannot be kept out by walls or doors, so this consensus comes in around us, until the room we live in is no longer unpolluted, and yet we hardly realize what has happened." --Francis Schaeffer [re post-modernist methodology and concept of truth]


 "Ego Fog's Amazing Grays"
                     or
 ("Po-Mo's Sacra-Mental Case!")
 
 
 
Fast talkin' Dawkins' Raiders
Took the Ark and threw it down...
Then they climbed the Throne of Glory,
Puffed up ...Proudly lookin 'round....
 
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Meet the Priestly Proselytizers
Their pitch?... An Empty Universe...
Evolution's nihilistas,
Clinging tightly to The Curse.
 
 
They preach there is no meaning
To this pointless world we're in...
And they say they truly mean it!
(That's the hole.... They're diggin' in!)
 
 
There they chew on Darwin's Manna;
While  lip-synching  Sagan's Song...
Mindless Nature's chosen Prophets,
Who think they feel they can't be wrong!
 
 
They say, "Only Matter matters!"
"That's Naturalism's Cardinal Rule!"
That's the  Blood-Red Creed of Darwin
Taught in Public "Sunday" Schools.
 
 
Theophobes of Naturalism,
Are all hiding from The Light...
Tucked behind the skirts of Darwin
Layin' low....They're outta sight!
 
 
These 'High Priests of Matter Data"
Preach an Ancient Pagan Spiel....
Gnostic Nihilist Delusions,
Dreams they think just may be real!
 
 
Naturalism's their Neurosis...
Theophobes who would erase
The God of all Creation.
Classic Sacra-mental case!
 
 
They growl, "There is no purpose
   In this Universe at all!"
Their delusion's now accepted!
(Vivid proof of mankind's Fall.)
 
 
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Fast talkin' Dawkins' Raiders
Took the Ark and threw it down...
Then they climbed  the Throne of Glory,
Puffed-up...Proudly lookin' 'round!
 
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"Talk of 'truth' and 'God' ?....
     Sheer nonsense!"
(So these Lucky Mudders say.)
"We're just chemical reactions!"
(Who keep waking up each day)
 
 
Here in Dim-Lit Humanism
Worship's done by "Inner-Gaze"
What they see in there's no myst'ry:
 "Ego Fog".....
 Amazing Grays.
 
 
Now religious Dawkinism
Spreads its Gospel through the schools....
Where white rabbits by the hatful,
Appeared in pre-biotic pools.
 
 
And though no one saw it happen,
You can trust 'em!....Just believe!
Keep the Faith in Dawkins' Dogma...
"Truth" lies hidden up that sleeve.
 
 
The trick is done with Smoke 'n' Mirrors,
And "prestidigious" sleight of hand....
Prest-O! ...
    Macro-Evolution!
'Houdini Science' sweeps the land!
 
 
It's Enchanting, Man!
Spellbinding!
It's,... (like)..., a Magik Carpet Ride!
Microbes morphing into Mankind!
Then Man divining Deicide.
 
 
And such Sorcery's respected (!)
In Science labs... (or so I'm told)....
Alchemists of Darwinism....
   Spinning straw, man, into Gold!
 
 
Magik Lanterns rubbed and ready;
Selfish Genies all at play.
Random DNA Red Rover...
(To Mother Nature...
    Let us pray.)
 
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Mr. Dawkins has been hawkin'
This quite ancient bill of goods...
Sagan's "Rattlesnake Elixir"...
In fallen western neighborhoods!
            
 
"Shaman you!" You might be thinking.
But, my friend, it's really true!
Scientism's Potent Potion?
Take a sip......
This brew's for You!
 
 
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Lord, the Dawkins Clan is balkin'
At the Life, the Truth, the Way...
Befuddled Potter-Mockers
Who will worship only clay.
 
Deep within they know the reason
Why the clay spins on Your Wheel,
But they close their eyes to Truth, Lord....
Choosing falsehood...
    That's unreal!
 
 
Mankind's Idol Fatal Factor...
Fallen Darkness feels so right!
Clay Worship!.....Front and center!
Lost humanity's Delight!
 
 
Mercy, Lord! This "Muddy Magik"...
This "Way of Clay" is nothing new.
But the muck of this delusion,
Keeps the heart from seeing You!


    "You say the materialist universe is 'ugly'...if you are really a product of this materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"--C.S. Lewis (in a letter to a young skeptic)
 
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   "Darwinism...is not merely a scientific theory...it is a full blown materialist cosmology, an account of everything, a biological theory with presuppositions reaching all the way back to the origin of the universe and conclusions stretching all the way through nature and into every aspect of human nature. " -Ben Wiker
 
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   "....the wisdom of the wise will perish,
         the intelligence of the intelligent
             will vanish.
   Woe to those who go to great depths
        to hide their plans from the LORD,
         who do their work in darkness and think,
         'Who sees us? Who will know?'
   You turn things upside down,
         as if the potter were thought to be
          like the clay!
   Shall what is formed say to him who
          formed it,
         'He did not make me?'
   Can the pot say to the potter,
         'He knows nothing'?
                                             (Isaiah 29: 14-16)
 

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