March 1

How Did Roald Dahl End Up on the Wrong Side of Published History?: The Velocity and the Comprehensiveness of the Moral Revolution 'Power Corrupts, ...

If you are a young man or young woman called to the mission field and to fields of service, this is when you are invited to come. And by the way, if Boris Johnson is going to be in a controversy, he's going to be in the center of it. There's more to it than that, but the bottom line is that the cultural cleavage in our country now comes down to the attorneys general of the various states. They are based in the Christian worldview because the Christian worldview explains why Lord Actin's famous maxim, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely," why it's absolutely true, and it's because of sin. Now, one of the things we're going to look at this week is that at the federal level, one of the things we saw President Biden do was to try to put together an overreaching exercise of executive authority claiming this national emergency under a provision for veterans in order to basically forgive billions upon billions of dollars of student debt undertaken by Americans and basically fulfilling a pledge that he had made in the campaign. And we also understand that the issues of publication and language translation and all the rest, they have a great deal to do very directly with the holy scriptures, with how the Bible is translated into English and some of the controversies about additions of the Scripture, translations of the Bible that have been mourned in some cases less faithful to the biblical text. Here is someone who knows the power of words and indeed the danger of words, but he thinks it's more dangerous to take a work of literature such as the body of children's books by Roald Dahl and rewrite them in such a way that Roald Dahl would now not recognize those books. If indeed a book becomes now on the wrong side of history by current judgment, then people just won't buy it anymore and it'll go out of print and go out of circulation and it won't matter. And one of the things you note in terms of both comprehensiveness and speed is that literature is quickly out of date, quickly out of style, and quickly out of favor, and that's exactly what you see with the British children's author, Roald Dahl. And so if you had a character in some form of literature who was described as acting queer, well, you do the math, we might all agree that doesn't particularly communicate well in the modern age, but do you change the book or do you explain the language? Now before going to some of the more ideologically laden changes, just notice that the gender revolutionaries are now saying it is exclusive to use categories such as men, women, boy and girl. Well, here's where we see that the comprehensiveness of the moral revolution means that nothing can be unchanged, nothing can be left as it is, not if it contains some kind of moral message, and that means almost everything.