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Patrick Michael Murphy
Patrick Murphy runs a small business in the American Midwest. He has wide ranging interests, including history and philosophy, and especially all that pertains to the Bible.
He is the author of Ho...view morePatrick Murphy runs a small business in the American Midwest. He has wide ranging interests, including history and philosophy, and especially all that pertains to the Bible.
He is the author of How the West was Lost: Coping With Life in a Strange, New Civilization, wherein he presents his theory that the civilization that Christianity created after the fall of ancient Rome (what we call “the West”) has already ended. He builds the case that we are currently living in a new, as yet unnamed civilization, which is characterized by distinctly different assumptions about life and reality itself—but we haven’t recognized it yet. This new civilization can be detected in the many astonishing new, ways of perceiving life, indeed reality itself, that we have quickly come to take for granted. Indeed, no matter how fast they multiply, we tend to feel as if it has always been this way—but people living a hundred years before us would find most things about our era incomprehensible, shocking or despicable. The list of examples is long and lengthening, but just think of any current issue that relates to sex and you will get the picture.
It’s all around us, but since fish don’t know they’re wet, we don’t notice it. The civilization a person grows up inside of is to that person reality itself; to question its assumptions is like questioning the notion that we should breathe air, or eat food. Yet, in our time, the essential things of Christian, or Western, civilization—the air and food of that lost world—are rejected, and things completely foreign to it are assumed to be essential to social life itself. It is as if we have returned to ancient Rome.view less
Books by Patrick Michael Murphy
The Stairway to Heaven: The Beatitudes and God's Plan for Your Life! :Looking at Matthew 5 with Fresh Eyes