Andrew Breibart said that politics is downstream from culture. Religion is a very important part of culture. The United States began as a very Christian nation. Many of the original colonies were founded by religious groups, by people willing to defy the British government in order to practice Christianity as they saw proper. They weren’t just going to church because it was expected. Today, many millions have fallen away from the Christian faith. But they didn’t all lose the religious impulse.
I found this analysis of modern American culture relevant and accessible. We're apparently of the same generational cohort, but with different backgrounds. I was not raised in a church family, but grew up with the Beatles and hippies in suburbia. This is bound to confront and offend the pious and atheist alike.
I dipped into Christian faith briefly, but couldn't abide by the internal contradictions and the forced emotionalism. If Christianity is to reemerge as a cultural force, there's going to have to be a reconciliation of theology or dogma among all the Protestant denominations (at the very least), and ideally between Catholicism and Protestantism. The à la carte nature of modern Christianity destroys its credibility as "the one true faith", IMO.
In particular, the Catholic church needs to reconcile itself with its purported doctrine. You can't have high profile Catholics like Biden, Pelosi, the Kennedys supporting unlimited abortion for 49+ years and not being excommunicated. The Church needs to say what it means, and mean what it says to be taken seriously.
I'd really like this analytical and meditative kind of faith. As a Hindu, we have some of that but also a lot of silly New Age stuff, for which I would blame people like Vivekananda
It is inevitable that human beings will mix their cultural attributes and arts with their Christian faith. It is probably regrettable, but unavoidable.
I believe that the music portion of services has become a distortion to the purpose of church. I think the emotionalism is the tailing residue of the 1960s hippie/krisha emotional era.
This seems to be a property of the modern church: to be the last holdout for bad ideas. For example, free speech was once a left-wing demand. Burning flags, defacing the Cross, etc. Now, that all speech is (was) free, the secular have begun to tighten the reins, and Christian speech is now beginning to be restricted. An inversion.
But rather than return to a demand for Christian truth being paramount, the Church is left fighting for the progressive's original outcome of all speech being free. The Church needs to get its priorities straight.
Also, mainstream Christians are some of the least strategically aware and gullible people in the whole country. Blogs like this will be crucial to correcting this.
Even pastors who may be great men of God get punked over and over by a crafty secular culture.
I think one other thing that will make the original post's plan possible is that the reasons for rejecting Christianity are being drained away. In the 1960s, the idea of free love and drug use, along with the lure of being an "intellectual" and embracing moral relativism lured many into worldliness. Further lures have occurred since.
A lot of these Vulcans, as you put it, have been marginalized in every way possible. They are completely out of allies and options (with regard to the cultural forces).
What is their reward in being a white-knight f-inist supporter on f-book? Sooner or later simping on instagram will lose its appeal. Pr0n? The same. None of the supposed benefits of supporting the current social order provide anything to the young man except costs.
Thankfully a merciful God will have us back even after we went prodigal son on him.
Men are slowly coming to the end of themselves, and maybe - just maybe - have no path left except revival or despair.
As I noted elsewhere, The analogy of Spock attending Hillsong made Mrs Keruru laugh. It's not that I don't like some of the Hillsong composers -- they are better than almost all new worship music --but. won't happen.
But the churches that can sing Bach are converged, liberal, preaching inclusion, diversity and anything but the gospel. Christ is not mentioned, because he would honour the law. It is all spiritual development, theory without the practice, having the forms of religion while denying any power therein.
So we are in a church in a bowling club, with a worship team that cannot keep tune, because the word of God is spike there.
I found this analysis of modern American culture relevant and accessible. We're apparently of the same generational cohort, but with different backgrounds. I was not raised in a church family, but grew up with the Beatles and hippies in suburbia. This is bound to confront and offend the pious and atheist alike.
I dipped into Christian faith briefly, but couldn't abide by the internal contradictions and the forced emotionalism. If Christianity is to reemerge as a cultural force, there's going to have to be a reconciliation of theology or dogma among all the Protestant denominations (at the very least), and ideally between Catholicism and Protestantism. The à la carte nature of modern Christianity destroys its credibility as "the one true faith", IMO.
In particular, the Catholic church needs to reconcile itself with its purported doctrine. You can't have high profile Catholics like Biden, Pelosi, the Kennedys supporting unlimited abortion for 49+ years and not being excommunicated. The Church needs to say what it means, and mean what it says to be taken seriously.
I'd really like this analytical and meditative kind of faith. As a Hindu, we have some of that but also a lot of silly New Age stuff, for which I would blame people like Vivekananda
It is inevitable that human beings will mix their cultural attributes and arts with their Christian faith. It is probably regrettable, but unavoidable.
I believe that the music portion of services has become a distortion to the purpose of church. I think the emotionalism is the tailing residue of the 1960s hippie/krisha emotional era.
This seems to be a property of the modern church: to be the last holdout for bad ideas. For example, free speech was once a left-wing demand. Burning flags, defacing the Cross, etc. Now, that all speech is (was) free, the secular have begun to tighten the reins, and Christian speech is now beginning to be restricted. An inversion.
But rather than return to a demand for Christian truth being paramount, the Church is left fighting for the progressive's original outcome of all speech being free. The Church needs to get its priorities straight.
Also, mainstream Christians are some of the least strategically aware and gullible people in the whole country. Blogs like this will be crucial to correcting this.
Even pastors who may be great men of God get punked over and over by a crafty secular culture.
I think one other thing that will make the original post's plan possible is that the reasons for rejecting Christianity are being drained away. In the 1960s, the idea of free love and drug use, along with the lure of being an "intellectual" and embracing moral relativism lured many into worldliness. Further lures have occurred since.
A lot of these Vulcans, as you put it, have been marginalized in every way possible. They are completely out of allies and options (with regard to the cultural forces).
What is their reward in being a white-knight f-inist supporter on f-book? Sooner or later simping on instagram will lose its appeal. Pr0n? The same. None of the supposed benefits of supporting the current social order provide anything to the young man except costs.
Thankfully a merciful God will have us back even after we went prodigal son on him.
Men are slowly coming to the end of themselves, and maybe - just maybe - have no path left except revival or despair.
As I noted elsewhere, The analogy of Spock attending Hillsong made Mrs Keruru laugh. It's not that I don't like some of the Hillsong composers -- they are better than almost all new worship music --but. won't happen.
But the churches that can sing Bach are converged, liberal, preaching inclusion, diversity and anything but the gospel. Christ is not mentioned, because he would honour the law. It is all spiritual development, theory without the practice, having the forms of religion while denying any power therein.
So we are in a church in a bowling club, with a worship team that cannot keep tune, because the word of God is spike there.