This is queer moronicity. You cannot call this theology. There is no sense of sin: there is no need for forgiveness.
Instead the church is supposed to promote corruption.

If Jesus had known that he wouldn’t have needed to die for the sins of the world.  He could just have hung out in heaven in the presence of the Father till gay black women came along and became ‘the church’s salvation’ (although I wouldn’t wish to be part of a faith community which depended on that).

[I know, someone’s going to say ‘but that’s not what the story is about’… Well then, the tweet is misleading and false.  Like the theology which asserts that the Church needs, or has a savior who is not Christ].

May this not be. This is far worse than the Militant Athiesm that underlies this: at least the Athiests are intelligent and generally use reason: you can argue with them. YOu can even have a beer with them.

These queer idjits, less so. They just hate.

Back when I was an atheist, I was not so naïve. Religion answers basic and deeply-rooted human emotional and psychological and intellectual needs. At that time, I thought the answer was false, but I did not think it was trivial, a matter of mere lightly held opinion. I thought it was a lie, but I thought it was a cunning lie, a bear trap impossible to disarm, and only to be approached with courage and caution. I thought religion would always be among us, and never pass away, any more than racism or warfare would ever pass away. I now believe religion will always be among us and never pass away, any more than true love or times of peace will ever pass away.

However, John C Wright is an American (and now a Christian, and worse to the SJW, a Papist. Good on him). He believes in logic. He believes in structure, in a rational universe, and a just and loving God.

But SJW memes have invaded geek culture, and they distrust logic and call it patriarchal power, and technology, which they see as darker and more Satanic than Blake at his bleakest.

At the same time, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' is a very scary phrase. Because whilst it might just mean 'whoa, this iPhone is like magic', it might also mean 'you only think that technology, science and the advancement of learning is good because you haven't advanced enough in it yet'.

In Lovecraft's universe, the Grand Universal Theory isn't a mathematical equation that allows us to understand everything - it's a mathematical equation that lets us understand that, in order to survive, we need to supplicate ourselves to horrible entities whose motivations we are literally not capable of understanding.

In the Lovecraftian universe, scientific progress goes fire -> smelting -> information technology -> understanding of quantum mechanics -> sacrificing innocents on a bloody stone to appease Shub-Niggurath.

Key to the assumptions of most science fiction is the idea that at no point are we going to realise that our framework - rationality, the scientific method - just doesn't work, and we're never going to hit a problem that human beings cannot ever hope to understand, even for a moment, let alone solve. That our brains are capable of anything.

And that's why Lovecraftiana works so well for geek culture in 2015; because we're starting to see those things and they scare the crap out of us.

The SJW are left with irrationality as a defense: for all is power, technology is mistrustful. In rejecting the true God, the risk is in fear they should appease Shub-Nigggurath. Stross is better, knows better, and his hero, Bob Oliver Francis Howard, will not worship. Instead he has a shotgun. With depleted uranium shells. Waiting for the ancient monsters.

But we are no BOFH. We are of the light, and the light is lethal. Let us not fear: for Christ will conquer Tumblr, Twitter, Gawker and the screaming mass of hatred that make up the SJW stormfront. For they fear that they will be forced to worhip at the Gates of hell: the very thing that the church will destroy.