“The survival of Man on this Earth...is not worth having unless it can be had by honourable and merciful means.”
C.S. Lewis, 1948
Thinking this morning about all that’s happening: looming military force against the Ottawa freedom fighters, including the children; hemorrhagic fever biowarfare threats from China; Ukraine-Russia conflict stoked by US government; the illegitimacy of the 2020 election and planned corruption of the 2022 midterms; poison-shot genocide; Federal Reserve, Bank of International Settlements, and inflation and currency debasement; digital wallets and digital passports; globalist secular tyranny gathering strength on one side, populist, freedom-loving Christian resistance gathering strength on the other...
Reminded me of C.S. Lewis, On Living in an Atomic Age, written in 1948 and equally if not more important in 2022:
“The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things: praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds...
Nature does not, in the long run, favour life...the important question is not whether an atomic bomb is going to obliterate ”civilization.” The important question is whether “Nature” — the thing studied by the sciences — is the only thing in existence...
All Naturalism leads us to this in the end — to a quite final and hopeless discord between what our minds claim to be and what they really must be if Naturalism is true. They claim to be spirit; that is, to be reason, perceiving universal intellectual principles and universal moral laws and possessing free will...
We must simply accept it that we are spirits, free and rational beings, at present inhabiting an irrational universal, and must draw the conclusion that we are not derived from it. We are strangers here. We come from somewhere else. Nature is not the only thing that exists. There is “another world,” and that is where we come from. And that explains why we do not feel at home here...”If Nature is only our sister — if she and we have a common Creator — if she is our sparring partner — then the situation is quite tolerable...
She has nothing to teach us. It is our business to live by our own law not by hers: to follow, in private or in public life, the law of love and temperance even when they seem to be suicidal, and not the law of competition and grab, even when they seem to be necessary to our survival. For it is part of our spiritual law never to put survival first: not even the survival of our species. We must resolutely train ourselves to feel that the survival of Man on this Earth, much more of our own nation or culture or class, is not worth having unless it can be had by honourable and merciful means.
The sacrifice is not so great as it seems. Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs. Those who care for something else more than civilization are the only people by whom civilization is at all likely to be preserved. Those who want Heaven must have served Earth best. Those who love Man less than God do most for Man.”
