OK, Sunday night during session four of the Truth Project, RC Sproul said (this is paraphrased), “We are living in the most divided time in the history of our country, culturally and ideologically.”
Really? REALLY???????
Sproul is WAAAAAAAY smarter than I will ever be, and I have learned a lot from the quotes that I have heard from him, but… REALLY?
Maybe he is a better theologian than historian. To me, 620,000+ deaths in the Civil War constitutes a pretty divided time in our history. The Civil War was nothing if not cultural and ideological.
Am I way off here?
I see what you are saying. I wonder, though, if he meant that right now we are divided on more, and by that I mean a wider variety, of cultural and ideological issues. What do you think?
You might be right, Kim. I’d have to watch it again to survey the context of his quote. The general context of the session was the question “Who is God?” It seemed to me that the specific context of the quote was the ways in which our culture/worldviews have eclipsed the knowledge of God with lies and misconceptions. The main points were that two truths have been the specific recipients of attacks by secular forces - these two truths being that… 1. God exists. 2. The Bible is a reliable record of His revelation. And the quote about the most divided period in our history, culturally and ideologically, came in the midst of that context. In which case, he might have been aiming that quote at those two main truth claims and the fights that have accompanied them.
good thoughts. I always like hearing another perspective, thanks for sharing.