March
29th 2008
The Next Christianity
Patroon

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Chronicles writer and Penn State religious professor Philip Jenkins offers an interesting take on the future of Christianity in this article in The Atlantic

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  1. Weaver on 29 Mar 2008 at 11:32 pm #

    Hopefully he’s underestimating the power of ethnic loyalties. That is to say, hopefully some pockets of peace and order will remain.

    The good news: globalism will be torn asunder.

    By about 1600 the Catholic Church had become the first religious body—indeed, the first institution of any sort—to operate on a global scale.

    Does that make it the first managerial institution?

    This move toward individualism, toward the privatization of religious belief, makes the spirit of the Reformation very attractive to educated people in the West.

    Protestant churches also seem more attractive to East Asians, perhaps for similar reasons. Hopefully East Asian nations too will weather this storm.

  2. roho on 30 Mar 2008 at 5:35 pm #

    “DECENTRALIZATION” always creates more freedom and liberty. Humans desire to live out their lives with those that share their beliefs and value system…………..Any form of “Globalism/Centralization” has always erupted into tyranny and misery.

  3. Weaver on 30 Mar 2008 at 6:03 pm #

    Roho,

    what if this leads to Sudden Crusade Syndrome, lol. (as opposed to Sudden Jihad Syndrome.)

  4. roho on 31 Mar 2008 at 11:10 pm #

    Weaver…………..Ha-Ha………..Ha-Ha……….I’m too busy trying to help my clan understand that “Leviathan killed our Great-Great Grandfather at Gettysburg, pillaged our nation in reconstruction, drafted our grandparents in WWII, and now want us to donate our children to a failed empirical Government that has hated us ever sence “Cotton” was a free trade commodity greater than beaver hats!”

    Up untill 10 years ago, “DIXIE” had never seen a Muslim or a Mexican, and now Muslims are supposed to be our mortal enemy when Mexicans are all we see?……………They are “WALL STREETS” mortal enemy, not Dixies. Let Harvard provide the canon fodder this time. (Besides, when the real U.S Incorporated’s Government (THE FED) get’s through re-organizing America AGAIN, we may have blue money and told that our property is not ours?)

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