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Tuesday, August 2, 2022 8:02

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Let me go two ways here:

1.) Individual believers often lack courage– and when so, it’s a lack of faith and/or (head and experiential) knowledge. Courage assumes there’s something to fear– and that’s fine; that’s life. So, what’s the response to fear: courage or cowardice? Key reasons for cowardice for Christians: 

a.) lack of trust in God’s providence (Do I really believe? I generally live/do in line with what I really believe!); 

b.) sins of omission tend to be subtle (People see and call out sins of commission much more often– their own and others.); 

c.) lack of knowledge about what to do in any given circumstance (Related: Christians often quote Joshua 1:6,7,9 to “be strong and courageous”, but they don’t know and aggressively address what’s in 1:8!). 

2.) Related but far deeper and wider: many self-styled “Christians” aren’t believers; they’re “belongers”. Religion has its sociological components– a way of belonging– and those tend to dominate when religion X is in the majority. Or we might say that they’re X culturally but not religiously. In our country, this manifests as “cafeteria Christians”– picking and choosing among Christian doctrines and practices, without meaningful biblically-Christian community– as a way of life, with (really) themselves as god. 

So, we have been a “Christian” nation in this sociological sense (with a peak in the 1950s). But to your point, we have not been a Christian nation in the religious/biblical sense. What we’ve seen in the last few decades and esp. the last few years, is the falling away of the belongers from churches– and a significant increase in self-styling as “nones” rather than “Christian”. (Nobody is a “none” in a religious sense, but it’s easy to be “none” in the sociological sense.) This trend is generally good news– probably quite good news, since they’re less of a fraud and ironically, more likely to accept the Good News. 

If you’ve read this far, you would like (love?) one of my essays on this latter point– on “Christianity” as “American Civil Religion”.

Source: http://schansblog.blogspot.com/2022/08/on-christian-cowardice.html

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Anonymous

don’t you just love the pious,self righteous sock suckers like this jackass…

Aug 2, 2022, 12:40 pm 0 Reply
Anonymous

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Aug 2, 2022, 12:43 pm 0 Reply

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