Dave Brat

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Yeah, well, Harnwell does a great job of giving the overview there.

I think some famous economist, Keynes, or somebody said, you know, like it or not, two philosophers have shaped the world we live in today, Karl Marx under communism and Adam Smith under freedom, roughly speaking.

And roughly speaking, also there, Adam Smith wasn't exactly orthodox, but it's basically the competition between a society framed around the Judeo-Christian tradition, Western Europe, Christianity, of course, in Adam Smith's Scotland, versus Marxist China and Russia and communist atheism.

And so if you follow that line of thought today, how are we doing?

Well, there's no more systematic thought, right?

There's all sorts of news articles out there today about the psychic pain people are feeling, the anxiety, the tectonic plates shifting in the economy due to artificial intelligence.

And so people are high on the nerves right now.

Why is that?

Another reason is because people don't have any of the comfortable systems of thought in their mind anymore that helps to anchor you in a world of chaos, right?

Of course, God is the slayer of chaos right in the beginning of the Bible in Genesis.

But in our grand traditions right now, the great Protestant and evangelical traditions, we don't have systematic thinkers anymore.

Systematic theology and

and philosophy as you had in Luther and Calvin.

Now you've got some crazy evangelical nuts out there just making stuff up.

On the Catholic front, you got a bunch of sentimental priests here and there doing NGO work instead of providing systematic accounts of the gospel and the religion.

On the Jewish front, you got rabbis who are detached and not tethered anymore to the Torah.

and to the Old Testament scripture and to God.

Very few theologians these days referring to God at all in any sphere.