The Demise of Democracy
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ic system over the past century than any other campaigns in the history of humankind. Has it been worth it? A most provocative view has been put forward in reflection on this question by Mark Malvasi, history teacher at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Va. Reflecting on 100 years of democracy, Malvasi muses, To the extent that we have mastered nature and won our freedom, we have rejected the limitations of the human condition. No longer compelled to beseech God, we are confident that we are gods unto ourselves. Yet every day we witness the terrible consequences that follow when men, who no longer see the virtue of imitating Christ, arrogate to themselves the role of God (Intercollegiate Review, Fall/Spring 2000-2001; emphasis mine). intriguing! The system that shopped God around the world, that publicized the life of Jesus Christ to millions of pagans in far-off lands, no longer see[s] the virtue of imitating Christ. enlightened historian John Lukacs maintains that The historicity of Jesus Christ … is incontestable (A Students Guide to the Study of History), other members of the intelligentsia seek to bury this fact as an irrelevance in terms of the heritage of Western democracy!
Modern ideologues, whether of the right or of the left, have vowed to make irrelevant the appearance of Christ in history by somehow returning us to our original innocence. None have made good on their promises. These failures have contributed to the general revolt against civilization and to the desire among many to embrace a life of perpetual irresponsibility and self-indulgence (Malvasi, op. cit.; emphasis mine). Malvasi sees little about which to be optimistic for the survival of Western democracy: It would be naive to pretend to optimism about our situation, even the sort of optimism that derives from knowledge of having seen the worst. … We hope without reason, even as events in this world suggest that hope is unwarranted and unwise (ibid.). Hope , it is amid such hopelessness within human society that those who truly worship God, who truly understand the reality of Jesus Christ, should take heart. Their hope is not without reason! It is a sure hope of a far, far better future than that which the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time could ever give to mankind. It is a real and eternal hope of the exciting, glorious, God-given potential of humankind! horrifying events of the past century, its wars and rumors of wars, were but the fulfillment of Christs prophecies of these phenomena contained in Luke 21:8-11. The terror ushered in by the great attack on American soil on September 11 is but the early beginnings of a terror that will have mens hearts failing in the last hour of mans civilization under his own rule (Luke 21:22, 26). But Jesus Christ told His followers, [W]hen these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh (v. 28). ! Its time to look up! Look up in the sure hope of the return to this Earth of your Savior to quell all forms of government-including mankinds best attempts at his doomed democracy-and impose the perfect form of Gods government upon all mankind-forever! As Isaiah 9:7 says, Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.