He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not it a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
It is amazing how we honor carnal minded (secular minded) men because of their successes in terms of wealth or power while billions of men who lived quiet, peaceable sacrificial lives for their families are totally ignored.
Now to addresses the error of his statement above:
Reason is only as good as the premises upon which it rests.
Developing the steel industry, becoming enormously wealthy, giving money to charities and having one's name on magnificent buildings appears to be success.
But the Lord Jesus Christ asked the question:
What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?
From what I read about Carnegie, he never came to know Christ Jesus as his personal Saviour. So, that makes Carnegie a failure in the worst possible sense of the word.
No, reason is not to be revered for its own sake. The information one receives as the fuel for reasoning is critical.
Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. |
I don't know whether or not Carnegie ever received Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour. He appears to be a Secular Humanist from all accounts. Calvinism, in which he was reared, is such a messed up version of Christianity I am surprised anyone ever comes to the Truth out of its perversion of it.