I am writing a paper entitled, "Libertarianism & Compatibilsim within Free Will Concerning Moral Evil." This paper is an utter stupid endevaor that i feel has wasted my life. When i have talked to people in my life and even at seminary they wonder and ask me, "What does this have to do with reality, why and how does it effect my own life?" I tell them, absolutley nothing. We live in a world where we have homelessness and drug-abuse and prostitution under our very noses. We claim in the acedemic world that we are equiping future leaders to change the world.. one person at a time. If what i have learned from logic this year can ever help me win a person to Christ, outside the academic world speaking, then i will eat my own words.
The point i am trying to make is that if we as Christians who are in the academy truly care about the world outside the walls of our institutions then we need to start acting like it. When the theoretical, (like logic classes and other abstract philosophical classes such as Metaphyics, Phenomonology, and others) do not invade the reality it is truly pointless. I find that at my conclusion of seminary and of my academic ride so far, all that most of my proffesors care about is "academic masturbation." It is a sense of getting pleasure off your own smarts and then really beleiving that you are changing something or someone when it actuality no one really does. If we refuse to help the widowed, the orphan, the stripper, the porn star, the drug-abuser,... then we have failed to love others like Christ has told us to do. I know this sounds like a rant and i guess it is, but it needed to be said. I will clarify other issues on this post in future posts.
