Tom Holland Says that Human Rights is just as much a matter of Faith and Christ's Resurrection

Are we ready for such an awakening?

I don't think most listeners have much appreciation for just how radical @holland_tom answer to @gavinashenden 's question is for drowsy secular liberals in the West.

Secularism, a Christian invention, is based on a sort of "opt-out" posture regarding "faith" positions. Human rights is the law of the West, the law of the United Nations, but @holland_tom asserts it's just as much an article of faith as Christ's resurrection.

I'm going to have to continue to ponder his advice to the church, because on the menu of options in the Protestant marketplace angels, miracles, deliverance are VERY much represented. It's certainly true of the church in the developing world.

Part of the current attractive power of Orthodoxy today in the West today IS its strangeness. Clergy in robes, chains and big beards. Sometimes they look like they belong in The Matrix.

Part of what the recession of Modernity means is that public domain, self-evident nature of human rights might go away, and for that to become a particular domain of the sectarian rather than the public has remarkable implications.

Churches have grown fat and lazy having succeeded in sufficiently colonizing the state to do its bidding now for centuries. https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/p/no-america-isnt-going-to-help-make

We might imagine a modern day John the Baptist warning "Don't begin to say to yourself 'We have liberalism as our father, God is able from these stones to raise up children of liberalism... produce fruit in keeping with repentance!"

I hear @holland_tom saying that the church has begun to look more like "The Dude" than the witness to the logos of creation.