Dark Brightness

Matthew Flannigan rips into the high temple of liberalism in Auckland. Progressive (read liberal) Christians are offended by belief. They are puizzled as to why there are so many trained thinkers in orthodox churches and so few in theirs. As Matthew says:

Note two things here, first Cardy clearly caricatures the “literal conception story” yet mainstream Christendom, who believes this story, do not hold that God is literally a man and that he had sex with Mary. God in traditional theology is immaterial, he has no sex organs and the story of a virginal conception is just that, a virginal conception. Cardy, of course, being theologically trained, knows this. Second, Cardy on calling for “debate” means that people who hold orthodox Christian views “needs to be laughed at.” So Cardy’s understanding of theological debate apparently involves deliberately distorting and caricaturing the views of other people and then responding, not with reasoned argument, but ridicule.

St Matthews on the Terrace: Progressive Irrationality.

If God is a God worth worshiping, his care for us is shown by his intervention in our situation. This required three miracles — that he would be a man, that he would die, and that he would be resurrected. We celebrate the first of these on Saturday.