There have been several posts in the blogosphere about conservative Christianity or the Religious Right.
First, Art Boulet writes of the love of the fight in conservative circles. Here’s a sample: “i didn’t go to seminary so that i could get a ‘heresy hunter’ license and claim my spot among machen’s warrior children. i went to seminary because i want to positively contribute to the way christians think about the bible, about their god, and about how to live their lives in relationship to that god.”
A post at the CNN Belief Blog suggests that the Religious Right is “losing its children” because they are fed up with this atmosphere of conflict and ire.
Along similar lines, The Voice of Stefan has Moisés Silva interacting with a classic critique of Evangelical scholarship offered by James Barr. Here’s a sample: “Barr exposes a serious defect in the development of evangelical Biblical scholarship — namely, the tendency to adopt a critical point of view but to use that approach only when it supports the evangelical agenda. This can happen directly or vicariously. By vicarious I mean the approach of many evangelicals who themselves reject critical methods in principle but who read liberal works looking for arguments that debunk other scholars. Barr justifiably says that this is not fair. How can we claim that a conservative conclusion developed within the framework of so-called higher criticism is valid unless we are willing to say that the framework itself is legitimate and that therefore in principle nonconservative conclusions too may be valid?”
Perhaps also relevant is the Barna survey information shared by Diglotting, giving figures for casual and captive Christians. Heather Wax compares acceptance of mainstream biology (i.e. evolution) in three countries. And Mystical Seeker has a post about what it means to “refudiate” hatred and bigotry.
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