He Who Loses The Arts Loses The

Most People Do Not Realize That There Was A Paid Chaplain In Congress Even Before The Revolutionary War Ended.

We Are Not Being True To The Artist As A Man If We Consider His Art Work Junk Simply Because We Differ With His Outlook On Life. Christian Schools, Christian Parents, And Christian Pastors Often Have Turned Off Young People At Just This Point. Because The Schools, The Pastors, And The Parents Did Not Make A Distinction Between Technical Excellence And Content, The Whole Of Much Great Art Has Been Rejected With Scorn And Ridicule. Instead, If The Artist's Technical Excellence Is High, He Is To Be Praised For This, Even If We Differ With His World View. Man Must Be Treated Fairly As Man.

If There Is No Absolute Moral Standard, Then One Cannot Say In A Final Sense That Anything Is Right Or Wrong. By Absolute We Mean That Which Always Applies, That Which Provides A Final Or Ultimate Standard. There Must Be An Absolute If There Are To Be Morals, And There Must Be An Absolute If There Are To Be Real Values. If There Is No Absolute Beyond Man's Ideas, Then There Is No Final Appeal To Judge Between Individuals And Groups Whose Moral Judgments Conflict. We Are Merely Left With Conflicting Opinions.

As Evangelical Christians We Have Tended To Relegate Art To The Very Fringe Of Life. The Rest Of Human Life We Feel Is More Important. Despite Our Constant Talk About The Lordship Of Christ, We Have Narrowed Its Scope To A Very Small Area Of Reality.

In My Reading Of Philosophy, I Saw That There Were Innumerable Problems That Nobody Was Giving Answers For. The Bible, It Struck Me, Dealt With Man's Problems In A Sweeping, All-encompassing Thrust.