Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what was the greatest obstacle to the extension of Christianity. He answered: “Christianity.”
Christianity faces the prospect of its own death through the death of its inadequately conceived Easter God. Christianity, as practised in New Zealand, is not credible and is dying.
If Christianity faces up to this full reality, it will survive to be a useful religious community. If it fails to shoulder the full weight of its own cross, it will not discover whether its Christian faith is really true.
Another metaphoralist objects to Tradition and Church teaching … at Easter! Ghandi was correct.
Couldn’t make the link work but found it at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=11239386&ref=rss
An aggressively elevated tone for the spiritual mountaineers who’ve climbed well above the tedious doctrines of the church but, in the thin air and chosen company, look down and celebrate their “daring exploration” and “profoundly honest…life”.
Bourgeois to its roots – give me instead the old, old story of the Savior who died for my sins and the church that stands or falls by its fidelity to Him.