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If you leave out an important ingredient, your best cooking efforts are doomed.

This article was written while I was in Nova Scotia and had just returned from having supper with a local family.

This part of the world, Clare County, has several municipalities that are Old French culture and language. The schools in these municipalities hold their classes in the old Acadian language, while the municipalities either side are English. In the seventeenth century, the French living in the valley of Nova Scotia were forcibly relocated by the British. Some found their way to the western shores of Nova Scotia while others were settled in Louisiana. The Cajuns and the Acadians are linked culturally — and share an understandable attitude towards the British. In Nova Scotia, the Acadians have been promised an apology from the monarch of England, but it is yet to arrive.

This caused me to reflect on the turmoil of Europe at the time of their dislocation. The Acadians, French in origin, tried to remain neutral in the struggles between Britain and France. They were not permitted to do this. Read the rest of this entry »

ELIMINATE MASCULINITY IN THE CHURCH

I’ve a confession to make. If you’re like me, you go to church, sing some hymns or spiritual songs, listen to a sermon, listen to someone else pray (except when you’re in a church that allows congregational participation) then go home and forget the experience.

Take this morning for example. The song leader extols the virtues of “He loves me” repeated many times. Now you could be forgiven for making a mistake on the meaning of these words Read the rest of this entry »

STEP TWO: FEMINIZE THE CULTURE WITH MUSIC

In the first part of this discussion topic, I highlighted the feminization of culture with hymns. Here, I want to look at music.

If your life is similar to mine, then we’ve both spent an awful amount of time trying to make up for a bad education. Public schooling was my background. It was not good. Here’s why. Being hostile to Christianity, public school secular education left out Read the rest of this entry »

Step 3: USE MUSIC FOR THE MORAL REVOLUTION

In this series on the feminization of culture, I’ve wanted to get you thinking about communication. In particular, communication with music.

First, I highlighted how hymns were used to help eliminate a rigorous intellectualism in the church and replace it with a more emotional environment.

Second, I drew your attention to how music is an important ingredient in communication, and how we can contradict ourselves by having the wrong music with the right words.
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Step 4: Preach Psychology Rather Than Theology

If you want to radicalize the church and feminize it, there is not much left to do after you’ve replaced the Psalms with hymns and accompanied the hymn with 19th century romantic style music.

A remaining task is to feminize the preaching, and that’s pretty easy to do. Now I happen to think there is a place for women in the church, and there’s even a teaching role for them. But, if only women do the teaching, you can be certain that some things in the Bible will be left out.
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Step 5: RADICALLY CHANGE THE THEOLOGY

This piece of historical information should get your mind racing!

In trying to understand the cultural changes of recent centuries, one has to look at religion. “Culture,” as Henry Van Til argued, “is religion externalized.”
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“Lying is to democracy what manure is to rhubarb.”

Can you believe someone actually said that?

Sometimes you wonder what depths highly paid academics will go to in offering the public the latest in academic research.

In 2003, a Reader in Politics at a British University claimed to have discovered something the ordinary citizen has known all along.
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