January 11, 2009
NBC Poll - "In God We Trust"
In Acts 17:16, Paul is in Athens and is confronted by two philosophies, Epicureans and Stoics. The Epicureans believed in secular individualism. They believed that they could exist without the oversight of the heavens. The Stoics were the naturalist, the radical environmentalist, earth lovers of the day. Paul admonished them to look at the God called “The Unknown God.” He said, “It is in Him that we live and move and have our being.”
Athens was the birth place of democracy. Paul is from Jerusalem, the seat of Theocracy. The American experiment is the combination of a democracy under the Head of God. We are “One nation under God.” It is in Him that we trust.
The primary philosophies that Paul confronted are the same “talking heads” that we are confronted with today. They are passionately religious people, committed to their gods, yet secular in their decisions of life. They “babble” on and on without ever saying anything. They cry intolerance when we question their hypocrisies, yet are visceral toward us if we stand for what we believe.
One of the leading voices in this cultural exchange is NBC. The broadcasting giant is now shrinking each day because of its narrow appeal to the general population.
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