I can’t recommend this little book enough.
As an aside, I really feel many of my blog posts are very very amateur compared with some others I have read.
All my little puny complaints about media… compare with this “Our enemies are not even the canker worm within pur own culture of death: Larry Flynt and Ted Turner and Howard Stern and AOL Time Warner and Disneu who make missionary movies for the Antchrist.” and
“But we are not free to stop our ears to the educational and media blitz that assaults us everywhere, the buzzing flies of Beelzebub that hover around the garbage dumps of the minds who make the movies and the TV shows”p54
There’s hardly a single movie any more that doesn’t have some subtle propaganda in it, usually a gratuitous sex scene.p75
This review of Peter Kreeft’s book no less an amateur attempt.
Some notes:
Intro: You can’t stop progress is like saying “You can’t stop regress”
Dr. Laura banned for “hate speech” in Canada. You cannot win a war if you don’t know you are fighting one, who the enemy is and what weopons to use.
Chapter 1: We are at War
A Wake Up Call
-if you don’t know we are in one, you must have been in vacation on the moon.
- Sex and money. Economy ok => People are happy…. Two answers AIDs and Suicide show these don’t make us happy
Chesterton wrote: “the next great heresy is going to be an attack on morality, especially sexual morality”.
Kreef’s forsees the need for the pruning of the Church.
Chapter 2: The Identity of Our Enemy
Principalities and Powers
-Our real enemy. Pope Leo’s vision and why he created the “Holy Michael Archangel. When this prayer stopped being said… 1960′s
-Horror of sin- destroying Christ’s face within us.
Chapter 3: The Kind of War We are in.
True and False Spiritual Warfare
- problem of lumping “goodness” with Spirituality and not sanctity or holiness.
20th century was the devil’s? Pol Pot Stalin Hitler abortion etc
Chapter 4: The Fundamental Principle of All Culture Wars
Colson’s Law less moral a society is, the greater need for police. Democracy designed for moral people.
NB Longest lasting societies religious. Athiesy ones dont last as long- 72 USSR. Longeivity proportional to morality.
Chapter 5: Our Enemy’s Battle Plan
destroy family by
destroying family stability
destroying sexual fidelity
by sexual revolution
sexual revolution propagated by media There’s hardly a single movie any more that doesn’t have some subtle propaganda in it, usually a gratuitous sex scene. And they don’t quesion it. They just lap it up.
Church of Henry’s hormones!
Sins of flesh given nice names and
Practice always low- but principles high.
Machiavellian… lower your principles to your practice.
-sex central- originating factor of life – image of inner life of trinity -image of God’s plan. Prime sin unfaithfulness to him.
-evangeliun vitae
Chapter 6: The Fiercest Battle:
Sex Wars
- sex new religion
- if you were a victimimised and confused by sexual perversion- how would you want to be delivered Chapter 7: The secret Weapon that will win the war:
Saints
Chapter 8: Basic Training
How to be a Saint
why arent a saint?
because I don’t wholly want to be.
But i want to be a saint?
but I dont wholy want to want to be a saint etc
Chapter 9: The Prognosis for Victory
Why We must win
