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Nov 08, 2019

WHEN YOU HAVE NO ANSWER:

"Beginning with the impersonal, there is no explanation for the complexity of the universe or the personality of man. As I said in the previous chapter, it is not that Christianity is [merely] a better answer, but that if you begin with the impersonal, in reality you do not have any answer at all to the metaphysical questions. And the same thing is true in the area of morals. If you begin with the impersonal, no matter how you phrase that impersonal, there is no final meaning for morals."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Nov 04, 2019

NOT FAR FROM DE SADE:

"Many of today's scientists are persuaded that the source of man's hungers, drives and needs lies totally in the brain's circuits--in the mechanism of man. We are not far from de Sade here."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Nov 03, 2019

THE VIOLENCE OF NATURAL SUPERIORITY:

"...Marquis de Sade was a chemical determinist in a philosophic sense. De Sade's books alternate between pornography and philosophy. The former provides the excitement, the vehicle to get across the philosophic concept. His point was very simple and yet very profound: Nature has made the male stronger than the female, and therefore it's right for the man to do anything he wants to the woman. This is the basis of sadism. In other words, in a deterministic system whatever is, is right. Once one accepts the presuppositions of determinism, whether chemical or psychological, values and morals disappear. All that remain are sociological, arbitrary absolutes."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Nov 02, 2019

THE EVOLUTION OF MORALS:

"The concept of morals as morals eventually disappears [if one begins from an impersonal beginning]. The man who has expressed this better than anyone else is the Marquis de Sade, with his chemical determinism, who simply made this statement: 'What is, is right.' No one can argue against this if we begin with an impersonal beginning."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Oct 12, 2019

THE DEVOLUTION OF MORALS:

"...because [modern] man sees himself as beginning from the impersonal, the energy particle and nothing else. We are left with only statistical ethics, and in that setting there is simply no such thing as morals as morals."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Oct 11, 2019

SCHAEFFER ON MCLUHAN, KINSEY AND SOCIAL MEDIA:

"Consider Marshall McLuhan's concept that democracy is finished. What will we have in place of democracy or morals? He says there is coming a time in the global village (not far ahead, in the area of electronics) when we will be able to wire everybody up to a giant computer, and what the computer strikes as the average at a given moment will be what is right and wrong. You may say that is far-fetched and there may never be such a worldwide computer system. But the concept of morals only being the average of what people are thinking and doing at a given time is a present reality. You must understand that that is exactly what Kinsey set forth in Sexual Behavior of the Human Male (1948) as statistical sexual ethics. This is not theoretical."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Oct 10, 2019

WHEN RIGHT AND WRONG IS MEANINGLESS:

"in this [impersonal worldview] setting, to be right is just as meaningless as to be wrong. Morals as morals disappear, and what we are left with is just metaphysics. We are just the little against the big; nothing has meaning in terms of right and wrong. We are rapidly coming to this in our modern culture."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Oct 09, 2019

WHEN YOU CANNOT HAVE MORALITY: :

"Beginning with the impersonal, though one may use religious terms and even Christian terms, there is no final absolute and there are no final categories concerning right and wrong. Hence, what is left may be worded in many different ways in different cultures, but it is only the relative--that which is sociological, statistical, situational--nothing else. You have situational, statistical ethics--the standard of averages--but you cannot have morality."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Oct 08, 2019

THE IMPERSONAL CONSEQUENCE: :

"...if you begin with the impersonal, in the universe as it is, there is no place for morals as morals. There is no standard in the universe which gives final meaning to such words as right and wrong. If you begin with the impersonal, the universe is totally silent concerning any such words."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Sep 25, 2018

PHILOSOPHERS:

"philosophy is universal in scope. No man can live without a world-view; therefore, there is no man who is not a philosopher."

~ Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Siltent


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Sep 24, 2018

INCONSISTENTLY CHAOTIC:

"The view that everything is chaotic and there are no ultimate answers is held by many thinking people today, but in my experience they always hold it very selectively."

~ Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Sep 06, 2018

ALL ARE PHILOSOPHERS:

"...all people are philosophers, for all people have a world-view. This is as true of the man digging a ditch as it is of the philosopher in the university."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Aug 31, 2018

SAME QUESTIONS:

"Not everybody is called to answer the questions of the intellectual, but when you go down to the shipyard worker you have a similar task. My second pastorate was with shipyard workers, and I tell you they have the same questions as the university man. They just do not articulate them the same way."

~ Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Apr 25, 2018

THE DEHUMANIZATION DEAD END:

"[According to the uniformity of natural causes in a closed system] by definition everything is a machine, so naturally there is no knowledge from outside, from God. If this is your worldview, and you refuse to consider the possibility of any other, even though your naturalistic world-view leads to the dehumanization of man and is against the facts that we know about man and things, you are at a dead-end."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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Jan 03, 2018

MAN DENYING HIMSELF:

"...you can only hold the uniformity of natural causes in the closed system, which is the almost monolithic consensus today, by denying what man knows about man."

~ Dr Francis Schaeffer, He is There and He is Not Silent


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