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Adventism seems unwilling to wrestle with the science/religion divide. Leadership takes its orthodoxy as axiomatic. And is actively hostile toward propositions uncongenial to these cherished beliefs. This is unconstructive in a 21st Century world. ....
American Evangelical Christianity: A Failed Movement? February 27, 2021 Roger E. Olson American Evangelical Christianity: A Failed Movement? I grew up in the “thick” of American evangelical Christianity and have served as a theologian in it for about forty years. My uncle was on the national board of the National Association of Evangelical (NAE). My parents were evangelical pastors; many of my close relatives were evangelical evangelists, ministers, missionaries, denominational leaders. I well remember standing on a downtown sidewalk of our Midwestern city feeling proud to see my father marching together with numerous other evangelical pastors and leaders. I don’t remember what the demonstration was about. It was peaceful and had city government permission. I wish I could remember what it was about but I was only abut eight years old. ....
Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:00pm 22 Favorites [+] Fanaticism has helped define our era. The popularity of unthinking, passionate adherence to a belief system over everything else, and the subsequent unwillingness to critically analyze the actions taken in the name of this ideology, has resulted in a series of unprecedented events in American politics and society. It has given rise to “alternate facts,” claims that anyone disagreeing with you is confirmation of your rightness, coverups of horrifying abuse scandals in some groups, and acts of international and domestic terrorism supported by others. This is a zealotry entirely different from feeling passionate about your religion, your philosophy, or your code it is a self-fulfilling, all-consuming obsession that rejects reality and substitutes its own, that persecutes dissidents and demands blind faith and conformity from its adherents. ....