From Paul to Paris Hilton: Can a Defeated Messiah Save Hollywood Heroes? [download]

Just a generation ago, most people would have acknowledged the apostle Paul to be a founding figure of Western civilization. The idea of charisma came from his letters in the New Testament. Today, however, Hollywood celebrity Paris Hilton has become a charismatic hero for millions of fans. Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi discusses this decline of the West in this lecture. He points out that the heroism that built the West consisted of an inner spiritual substance. 20th-century thinking secularized charisma into a superficial, external makeup. Today, a celebrity too feeble to overcome an addiction to drugs or alcohol can go to the destitute in Africa, distribute condoms, and save her image. The media may applaud her money-laundering as philanthropy. Dr. Mangalwadi holds secular thinkers such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, and Sigmund Freud responsible for emptying Western heroism of its depth and substance. The classical Greco-Roman world worshiped power. Dr. Mangalwadi explains why it began to worship a defeated, crucified Messiah as the Almighty God; why it saw the cross as a symbol of true strength. The crucified Messiah went on to conquer the chivalry of medival heroism, and to create the modern world where meekness, humility, and purity were the hallmarks of greatness.

This is an MP3 download of the 8th lecture of Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi's series entitled Must the Sun Set on the West. No physical product will be shipped.

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