Establishment Protestantism Won the Culture and Lost its Identity Along the Way
Thanks for your help Jesus, We'll take it from here...
In today's video I continue dropping historical breadcrumbs on the path of how America demythologized Establishment Christianity to create its dominant secular civil religion.
.@aaron_renn did an excellent job hitting some of the points in this video from a while ago.
It can be supplemented with this @ReadyHarvest video showing that the husk of the mainline remains as ubiquitous as McDonalds in American its food no longer has vitality.
Politicians sought to express Christ's compassion for the poor only to discover their agenda no longer needed Jesus.
Self-conscious Christian political moderates keep emphasizing that their agenda is Christian while the church becomes little more than a venue for organizing social activism.
The Cartesian dualistic mapping of heaven and earth comes apart as Protestantism either has no idea of what "spirit" means or develops in some weird fundamentalist gnosticism or utopian gnosticism. https://postliberalorder.substack.com/p/russia-america-and-the-danger-of?s=r
Hi Paul - LOL! You NAILED IT :-) Only read the title and sub . . . Yet isn't this the constant temptation? As like you a mainline pastor (Anglican Priest in NZ) I pay attention to church culture and think, where is ANY sense that we are only doing what we see the Father do? To a certain extent, I thin that the 'story' about 'going to heaven when you die', is unhelpful for it gives us the sense that 'here and now' is the place of OUR agency. We're in Lent. Jesus is taken to the place of truth about human agency, as were Israel. Yet he is faithful, trusting his Father and resisting the suggestion of taking it all into his own hands . . . a temptation we find hard not least when after all those of us having these conversations have such a huge sense of Agency in our lives . . . after all I can sit here on the other side of the Pacific with my mornig coffee and communicate so readily with you thousands of mailes away. When the first European settlers came here, a letter from home (The internet) had a 6 month delay in the signal and it even might go down in a storm . . . but a storm is coming . . .
BTW regarding the expansion of your much appreciated ministry - what was it Jesus' brothers said to him??? :-) (Oh, and 'is 21.7k followers not enough ;-) )
Blessings on you and your day - in case you'ree wondering at all about the future, I can confirm that Thursday happens . . . (one of the advantages of living on the cutting edge of a new day :-) )
Eric