Professor Beck. I appreciate the consistent depth you bring to your writing. These are long and deep so you can't just zip through. So much on Substack feels like writers trying to communicate in tweets, and I think it's making us dumber. But the challenge is most people will not take the time to read what you are putting out into the world. For what it's worth, I look forward to your newsletter and carve out time to really sit with it.
There’s no such thing as “American Christianity” there is only one historic faith. Most of what passes for Christianity in the U.S. is an idolatrous syncretism.
Dictatorships across history know this tactic. It's how you can march people into a gas chamber, (or a cage in Alligator Alcatraz), they believe what they are doing is right.
I can definitely see this in my community and my congregation. The sad thing is that people who think their version of reality is being challenged on both sides just leave. They won't even entertain the possibility that their reality is skewed.
I have long appreciated Peter Berger's work. A Christian, who was also a sociologist. Thanks for bringing his thinking back to the conversation.
Professor Beck. I appreciate the consistent depth you bring to your writing. These are long and deep so you can't just zip through. So much on Substack feels like writers trying to communicate in tweets, and I think it's making us dumber. But the challenge is most people will not take the time to read what you are putting out into the world. For what it's worth, I look forward to your newsletter and carve out time to really sit with it.
This is deep stuff. Personally I struggle to find anything Jesus-like about the Republican position.
There’s no such thing as “American Christianity” there is only one historic faith. Most of what passes for Christianity in the U.S. is an idolatrous syncretism.
Funny how technology has been used to deceive since the very beginning. It's a whole new level now.
Dictatorships across history know this tactic. It's how you can march people into a gas chamber, (or a cage in Alligator Alcatraz), they believe what they are doing is right.
I can definitely see this in my community and my congregation. The sad thing is that people who think their version of reality is being challenged on both sides just leave. They won't even entertain the possibility that their reality is skewed.
This is straight fire.