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Book Review: A Christian Manifesto
(Note: Please be aware that the author of this review spent 15 years entrenched in politics and has a passion for all things political. The biases I posses clearly obscure my objectivity on the topics contained in this book.)This book and its author, Francis Schaeffer, are considered by many to be contributing factors to the rise of the Christian Right political movement in the 1970s and 1980s.
Schaeffer indicates that the current decline of Western Civilization can be attributed to humanity becoming ever more pluralistic and humanistic, resulting in a shift "away from a world view that was at least vaguely Christian". Schaeffer argues that there is a philosophical battle between the people of God and the secular humanists.
Schaeffer bemoans the fact that as the secular humanistic view thrust itself into our culture in the 1960s and 1970s, Christian attorneys, politicians, pastors and laypeople sat back and let it happen. We now have a culture and society that embraces the sinful man and relegates God and His truths to that of spectator status.
Humanism has eroded the public perception of truth and morality. Faith and freedom have been legislated into the shadows. Christians have withdrawn from our culture and the public arena.