That's a thought provoking peace, though I'm not sure it applies to Christian evangelicals who have been politically active against abortion and LBGTQ+, to their credit. But it's true that a great many churchmen in mainstream denominations are quieter than they should be in the so-called culture war. However, the problem I see that's far worse is the growth of woke Christianity. I grew up in the United Church of Canada, which in the 1970s wasn't conservative but it wasn't Leftist either. It was politically centrist. Now that particular church has been taken over by radical feminists and gay activists and takes Leftist positions against Israel, for climate change mitigation, and endorses BLM. In other words, it's not a church at all but a Leftist propaganda machine posing as a church. It is not the only one either. Now the Anglican Church of Canada is going in that direction, incrementally. The real crisis of Christianity in the West is that it is being taken over by radical Leftists and has abandoned traditional Christian teachings.
When millions of evangelicals in America sold their political souls to Donald Trump, they castrated the gospel in their churches. The right are no better than the left. There is no civic action because people are licking their wounds wondering what to do next. The mainline churches are all dying and should because they have no gospel to proclaim, and the right forfeited their faith for a malignant narcissist that sold them down the spiritual River. It will be decades before the church recovers, meanwhile Nones will continue to rise and Christianity in America will continue to decline.
David, I agree with you about the spiritual vapidity, though I am not sure that all of it can be laid at the door of Donald Trump and his supporters. In any case, I am just trying to show that when we lose our faith we also suffer some important concrete losses too, in this case a previously robust political culture. I have some other losses in mind too, for future posts.
I look forward to more. I believe both the left and right have ripped the churches apart. No one has clean hands here. How long it takes to recover is anybody’s guess.
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That's a thought provoking peace, though I'm not sure it applies to Christian evangelicals who have been politically active against abortion and LBGTQ+, to their credit. But it's true that a great many churchmen in mainstream denominations are quieter than they should be in the so-called culture war. However, the problem I see that's far worse is the growth of woke Christianity. I grew up in the United Church of Canada, which in the 1970s wasn't conservative but it wasn't Leftist either. It was politically centrist. Now that particular church has been taken over by radical feminists and gay activists and takes Leftist positions against Israel, for climate change mitigation, and endorses BLM. In other words, it's not a church at all but a Leftist propaganda machine posing as a church. It is not the only one either. Now the Anglican Church of Canada is going in that direction, incrementally. The real crisis of Christianity in the West is that it is being taken over by radical Leftists and has abandoned traditional Christian teachings.
When millions of evangelicals in America sold their political souls to Donald Trump, they castrated the gospel in their churches. The right are no better than the left. There is no civic action because people are licking their wounds wondering what to do next. The mainline churches are all dying and should because they have no gospel to proclaim, and the right forfeited their faith for a malignant narcissist that sold them down the spiritual River. It will be decades before the church recovers, meanwhile Nones will continue to rise and Christianity in America will continue to decline.
David, I agree with you about the spiritual vapidity, though I am not sure that all of it can be laid at the door of Donald Trump and his supporters. In any case, I am just trying to show that when we lose our faith we also suffer some important concrete losses too, in this case a previously robust political culture. I have some other losses in mind too, for future posts.
I look forward to more. I believe both the left and right have ripped the churches apart. No one has clean hands here. How long it takes to recover is anybody’s guess.