SOUTH AFRICA MEETS INDEPENDENCE HALL

Recently my son, Nathan, and I took a father/son “road trip” which landed us in Philadelphia. Having enjoyed a very dramatic presentation of the history underlying this historic location by our guide, several of us gathered around him following his presentation to ask additional questions. Two young men from South Africa were among those so huddled.

After the guide excused himself, it was evident the guys from South Africa still had additional questions. Now I’m no history buff, but I figured I could surely answer some basic questions about our nation’s development. (I was wrong! Where is my friend Neil Romano when I need him?!) But God had a bigger picture for Nathan and me that day. In the brief video clip attached I share about the very substantive conversation Nathan and I had with Andrew and Byron.



P.S.—In one of my points in the video I refer to C.S. Lewis’s argument that the existence of transcultural moral “law” suggest a Moral Law Giver. I give the example—in my conversation with the two young men—that if we saw an adult beating up a child we would rush to the child’s rescue. Though some might argue that such a reaction would simply be a response instinctively instilled by natural selection to further the existence of the species, it does not explain why most (regardless of cultural background or religious persuasion—or the absence thereof) would consider such an attack as “wrong” if not explicitly “evil.” It is one thing to “protect the furtherance of the species,” quite another to ascribe a value judgment to such an action. It is the ascription of such value judgments, the basis of which finds little explanation from a purely naturalistic worldview