The Crisis of the Western World

"The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God." Whittaker Chambers

William F. Buckley Jr.called this Russian spy, Whittaker Chambers, "the most important American defector from Communism." Whittaker had lived under such indifference and saw its consequences. Empirical evidence led to his change of heart and country. He warned us to be vigilant. Are we vigilant?

We are living in a society that prides itself on its humanity, and credits itself with such as its accomplishment, all the while, being unaware of the source of such blessedness.  We are living and enjoying the vestiges, perhaps,the last vestiges of Judeo-Christian ethic, morality and virtue.

Do we yet recognize the Western world's indifference to God? Let's start with the image of God. Where do we find it if not imprinted on every child created within woman?  Look at the way that child is provided for,  by God's design, within the woman's womb. "Love", "nurture", "protection", all these words and more come to mind.  How do we recognize God, if not primarily in His creation.

Many think themselves, their thought and policies, humane, yet act in a way that can only be characterized as "sub-humane" toward the image of God in the womb.  Where are we in our Western thought and society?  Can we recognize Crisis when confronted with it. Do we even care?

Perhaps, God is confined to the box with such as the Sunday morning sermon, forgotten as we get back to "the real world."  God, the Creator of All,  a matter of indifference!? His life and image in the flesh and substance of every innocent human procreation goes unrecognized in our law and land. Where the sublime humanity of this age?