November 27
It is a remarkable fact that since the Renaissance,
the Reformation, and the French Revolution, the
Christian faith--with all its binding, outward
dogmas--has been crumbling away. In its place
a kind of unscrupulousness has emerged that
sweeps away not only superstition, but faith as
well, and makes people ruthlessly pursue their
clever inventions, which today are conquering
the world. All restraint is thrown overboard.
Research and strenuous activity take the first
place in life, relentlessly opposing everything
else. And so Confucianism and dogmatic
Christianity collapse. At the same time all the
animal instincts come to the fore, arousing
passions which threaten to destroy all culture.
But God must have a meaning in all of this. It is
a stage in the progress toward the time when
God's justice will be revealed in the yearned-for
freedom, a time when all human laws and rights
will cease, and people will know in their hearts
what is right and what is wrong.
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, from
Christ in the World, Letters to China No. 113, April 1912.
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