Interesting stuff. I already knew some of it (I remember being both ROFL and furious at one cleric being interviewed by the BBC who said we had to condemn homosexuality because otherwise it'd be a "filofax Bible" where we pick and choose which bits we want to follow - talk about irony!) but it's fascinating to learn more.
FWIW I think he's going a bit over the top in assuming this entire reversal of the Christian worldview is due to the Republican party and its followers. Parts of the Church have long had a tendency to be too fond of its own riches to follow a doctrine of poverty. Nor do I see any supporting evidence in his essays that the belief of "through Jesus, not by works" originated in the US, nor how it would grow to be so common elsewhere in the world where there wasn't this Republican agenda driving it.
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Date: 2004-12-09 01:21 pm (UTC)FWIW I think he's going a bit over the top in assuming this entire reversal of the Christian worldview is due to the Republican party and its followers. Parts of the Church have long had a tendency to be too fond of its own riches to follow a doctrine of poverty. Nor do I see any supporting evidence in his essays that the belief of "through Jesus, not by works" originated in the US, nor how it would grow to be so common elsewhere in the world where there wasn't this Republican agenda driving it.