another wink
I have not even finished the introduction and I am quite caught up in Wink’s writing. I thought this was interesting considering the current attitude of the US and their allies towards the UN:
Frank Peretti’s best-selling novel, This Present Darkness, grandly illustrates the hopelessness of trying to repristinate the ancient worldview today. While I appreciate his treatment of the interconnection of heavenly and earthly reality, the role of human freedom, the centrality of prayer, the angels of cities and nations, and the subtle coincidence of demonic promptings and people’s words or thoughts, what we are served up is a consistently paranoid view of reality. WIth such a worldview one cannot help seeing demons everywhere, even among saints. Rather than learning from our enemies, this view causes one to dismiss them as possessed by Satan. The author is welcome to his politcis; but it is one thing to regard the United Nations as a dangerous idea, and another to portray it as a conspiracy of the Devil. We have here a case of total projection of evil out on others….”
I am told that the ‘left behind’ series by Jerry Jenkins & Tim LaHaye portrays the head of a UN like organisation as the anti-Christ. I wonder how much Perriti, Jenkins and LaHaye are responsible for the attitude towards the UN amply demonstrated during the lead up to the Iraq war. Long bow? Maybe, although I must admit that during that time I was quite taken aback at the passion in which some bloggers and media attacked the UN.