tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post6816903904869727305..comments2024-02-15T03:32:25.686-05:00Comments on Preludium, Anglican and Episcopal futures: Gledhill on "God is Back," disestablishment, Anglican possibilities, etc.Mark Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871096746243771489noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-83336940841201877552009-06-09T23:54:42.010-04:002009-06-09T23:54:42.010-04:00I've seen that, too, Counterlight. The orthod...I've seen that, too, Counterlight. The orthodox/Fundamentalist approach to our religion has, perhaps irrevocably, damaged Christianity. Even here in the South, the general feeling about Christianity is that it's a promise that was not kept.MarkBrunsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16971990948866488080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10326675.post-22364756628776640692009-06-09T10:26:35.964-04:002009-06-09T10:26:35.964-04:00I'm afraid that I just don't see a "h...I'm afraid that I just don't see a "huge" interest in God-talk on this side of the Atlantic. I see the contrary, a growing hostility to religion in general and to Christianity in particular corresponding to declining church membership and attendance across the board. Talk of huge interest might have been true 20 years ago, but now I see a growing (and ferocious) reaction against the dominance of conservative evangelical Christianity in American politics and public life. All forms of Christianity (from liberal to fundamentalist) are suffering as the reaction becomes as simplistic, narrow-minded, and rigid as the religion it opposes.<br /><br />Right now, Christianity appears to be completely identified with right wing politics in the American popular mind, as though Christianity is but the sectarian extension of the Republican party (and the Republican party becomes the political extension of a sectarian movement). And now that Republican politics have fallen on hard times, even forms of Christianity that in no way sympathize or endorse a right wing political agenda are suffering.<br /><br />It's damn hard to be the instrument of the Lord's peace sowing love in the midst of hatred, pardon in the face of injury, union in the midst of discord, faith in the midst of doubt, hope in the face of despair, light in the place of darkness, and joy where there is sadness when all you hear on teevee is ever louder and more desperate choruses of "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition."Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.com