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For most of my life I grew up hearing that Hollywood was a bastion of liberal satanists intent on undermining the lordship of Christ Jesus. (I also heard a lot about how Ronald Reagan was a crypto-fascist dictator determined to undermine the god given right of the working class to organize labor unions, but [...]

In the last bit Yoder outlined how Man is trapped in the world, that he is both reliant on Power Structures (government, culture, the police state, etc…) to maintain some kind of order, and yet at that same time recognizes that those structures are themselves a form of tyranny that act to enslave Man.
After that [...]

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Someone else said it better than me, “I am anti-statist. The State is the problem par excellence…The State is racist and violent to its core…”
This position obviously has a lot of problems. Both practical and logical. W/out the State how do you [...]

Part 1 of this is here
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Alex, who by the way is honestly one of the smartest people I know and who might have all of first Corinthians literally memorized, points out in the comments to my post below:

That’s right, [...]

Just wanted to drop a pointer to another great article in Harpers by Jeff Sharlet.
Through A Glass Darkly
I always appreciate and agree with what Sharlet reports about evangelical Christianity, but there’s something about his tone that is infuriating.
Probably it’s sentences like this:

His followers must be dupes, or saps, or fools, their faith illiterate, insane, or [...]

I avoid all Christian Self Help books like the plague. There’s mostly nothing down that path but madness and thinly veiled ideas that were borrowed from the New Age Self Help aisle.
Most of it, flatly, is nonsense. Some of it is idiotic. And a certain share of it is downright dangerous.
Among the [...]

A while ago I wrote about what I call Christian Nihilism (here and here). The basis of this criticism was the simple working definition that nihilism is “..the view that the world, and especially human existence, is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.”
Well, thanks to a Harpers article Rapture Ready an [...]

How Then Shall We Politick
And right on the heals of that NY Times article I found this interview with Michael Gerson, Bush’s former speechwriter, on how he thinks Evangelicals should act in the public square.
Again with a great insight:

t’s probably a long-term mistake for evangelicals to be too closely associated with any ideology or political [...]

Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock
Alex put this in the comments of an older post, and was actually referring to an even older post. I wanted to wait until I had read it before posting the link.
The Rev. Gregory A. Boyd at Woodland Hills Church preached a series of 6 sermons that [...]

Jesus Is Not A Republican, an article by Randall Ballmer an evangelical and professor of American Religious History.
I hate even writing that title. It implies a whole discusion that I don’t want to have because its obvious. Jesus is not a Republican for a variety of reasons, mostly because he lived and died [...]