Från ordning till kaos

Dennis Prager är nu inne på artikel 10 i sin serie om judeo-kristna värden. Denna gång handlar det om hur den bibliska uppfattningen om att det finns en bestämd ordning i universum bekämpas av framförallt vänstern. Prager skriver:

Basic to the biblical worldview is the proposition that God made order out of chaos — order expressed largely through separation and differences. God separated light from dark and created day and night; separated the waters and created land; and so on. …

Here are some of the differences that are central to the Judeo-Christian worldview that are under attack today:

Good and evil: Central to the Judeo-Christian value system is that good and evil are polar opposites and ”Woe unto those who call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah). Opponents of Judeo-Christian values have made war on moral absolutes, on God-based moral values.

This has been attempted through moral relativism (”What I think is good is good for me, what you think is good is good for you”); opposition to moral judgments (”Who are you to call the Soviet Union ’evil’?”); multiculturalism (”No culture’s values are any better than any other’s”); substituting psychological categories for moral ones (such as routinely labeling violent murderers ”sick” rather than evil); dividing the world into the powerful and the weak rather than the good and bad; and through Marxism and all its leftist and liberal materialism-based offshoots that have substituted economic criteria for moral ones (”Poverty causes crime”; or as constantly heard since 9-11, poverty breeds terrorists, the point made by George McGovern recently at a symposium on world poverty at Princeton University).

God and man: God is God and man is man. There is an infinite gulf between man and God, and God is infinitely higher than man. For the Left, man is God and God is man (these were the very words used by Marx and Engels). Each man is the source of values and the measure of all things, unaccountable to any God.

Man and woman: ”And God created Adam [i.e., the human being], male and female He created them” (Genesis). This is the area of the greatest current cultural battle. The biblical view is that man and woman are entirely distinct beings, and human order in large part rests on preserving that distinctiveness. The Left is working to abolish this distinction._

Vart leder då detta? Prager slutar: ”By erasing the distinctions that make for an ordered universe, those working to dismantle Judeo-Christian values are working, consciously or not, to restore chaos.”