Reformed Christianity

she needs Christ like a fish needs oxygen

By J. L. Bastiat ⋅ May 4, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Christianity without Christ

Just when you thought it was safe to get interviewed in a typo-strewn print medium:

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Where to start. I mean, how tacky is that rainbow thing, anyway? Geez. Get with it, Mme. le plus-que-Reverend, ou est-ce que vous n’avez rien de gout chic?

OK, uh, folks . . . ? Really. It’s not just that she’s an apostate of the first rank and the most obvious sort:

Christianity without Christ via kwout

Or that her church history is worse than my French, and of less current vintage; or that she’s unable to merit even a correct spelling of “tenets” from this appallingly uncritical and entirely typical religion reporter: it’s that it’s all so . . . unironic. So . . . dumb.

It’s not catching up for a thousand years. It’s not even skipping a generation. Precisely this project has been underway without hesitation for the past 250 years, at an absolute minimum.

Cox. Altizer. Brunner. Bultmann. Arnold. Strauss. Lessing. Even my diss buddy Samuel Taylor Coleridge had a hand in it, though he didn’t mean to be taking Christ out; he did import the really big guns into English-speaking discourse, though. . . . and we returned the favor at Bultmann. Oh, see I didn’t even need Heidegger, Nietzsche, Hegel, or Kant to get this in?

That’s not counting any Gnostic or early Christian offshoots, abusive interpretations of the views of others, etc. It’s just counting the continuous existence of a Modernism which, colonial and post-colonial, modern and post-modern, liberal and post-liberal, Humeian and Marxian, and in a kajillion other guises, has been trying to erase the past into a continually expanding, though historically elusive, Dark Age from which to evolve a post-Christian Christianity that doesn’t have to give up its place in Christendom while undoing Christendom into . . . something dumb.

You know, something with doctrinal “tenants,” who must have deeply-held religious evictions.

(H/T Mark Steyn on the Corner at NRO)