Scenes from the university

Notions of multiculturalism and the respect we have for other faiths result in a Hindu man at a formerly Methodist university giving speeches to gay Roman Catholic students.

If you wonder at how men can be content within the strictures of non-Western societies, remember that we have an ahistorical lack of integration. The notion of belonging within a community, the subsuming of the self in the flow, the patterns, the larger whole of a body. The thought of converting because your leader converted, or believing something because your leader believes it, that the positions of the community contain with them a special significance that require an inevitable response, all these are foreign to us.

Is this not known? There is literature on it.

Understand who you are and the place you live! The time in which you live! Place yourself. I am under these influences too. What I want, this fullness, every man his own god, yes we all want this, it is the freedom which science and prosperity purchased for us.

They say that when the new way was opened for us through the curtain (this, remember, his body) that also the curtain that hid the false gods was destroyed, their mystical power broken. This was the power at work in those integrated places.

The university celebrates freedom from these gods.

It is a type of freedom.

It is nothing.

It is what Psalmist once said, that one day the kings of the earth would take their stand, that the rulers of the nations would gather against the Lord and against his anointed one. "Let us throw off their chains!" It is rebellion. But now all men are kings, each submitting to himself alone. They are united only in their refusal to bow before the one who made all things.

Let us pray together, they say. Even some supposed followers of the true God join with them, lowering what they worship to another object to be collected under the reign of self. They pray to nothing, mantras. No one hears.

Together they celebrate their imaginary religion, while outside the world is broken. Together they pray to their imaginary gods, while outside all defile themselves in ignorance.

James said, not many of you should be teachers. There is one who will judge.