Reading Blog 12/28/08

This Christmas Eve, instead of going to CPC, we went to a family friends Lutheran Church in Bloomington. Supposedly, the preacher was very good. I was enjoying the service until he had his sermon near the end talking about 3 points of the confused, convinced, and non-believers. He was pretty much saying that there are the confused people who don't know what religion they are, the convinced people who are convinced that they know the extent to which god reigns over, and the non-believers whom do not believe in god. Throughout his sermon he talked about the real meaning of Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ our savior and how he was brought to this earth to relieve us of our sins. But, with taking European History, we covered the whole Martin Luther and Lutheranism deal, and some of the things he said angered me because they went against what I was taught in class. For instance, he said that the pagan (separate religion from state and science) philosophes or people brought about the wreck of the faith in God. This is not true because without the Pagan philiosophes or the Pagan people in general, there would be no society today pretty much because without them there would have been any scientific, agricultural, or industrial revolutions and no enlightenment which would have kept the world from being modernised.