1. I’m amazed & disturbed how many people, after reading one article of mine that they agree with, write to me as if I know all the answers to life—if they saw the shambolic details of my life they would not do this. It’s easy to see how the unscrupulous could take advantage.https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1045307656804560896 …
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3. You can see a similar pattern in Marxism, which, in a sense, wants to perfect capitalism. The Marxists want to unlock the utter transformative power of capitalism in a “rational” way. In this, they are like the Protestants who sought a Christianity uncorrupted by the Vatican.
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4. Marxism is organisational entropy for capitalism. In both cases, Marxism & Protestantism, the revolt against authority is a deviation from the path—the Tao—& these revolts, suitably Satanic, always claim to be the complete and perfect fulfilment of the authority they subvert.
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I assume you don't regard Pentecostalism as Protestant, then? And possibly Evangelicalism also doesn't count as Protestant for you either? Both are growing fast and, as far as I can see, share plenty of characteristics with Protestantism.
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1. I am instinctively suspicious of statistics that talk of “fast growing” or “fastest growing” religions. Over the years, I have seen Mormonism, Islam, Scientology, Evangelical Christianity, and 7thd-day Adventism fill the slot of “fastest growing” religion.
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2. I suspect that this is actually very hard to measure, and that statistics regarding the growth of religions are manipulated for all sorts of political and organisational reasons (and not just by faiths trying to be “the most popular”, more subtle politics is at play).
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3. Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism represent conservative or reactionary movements within the general entropic drift of Protestantism. Leftism (and entropy) is situationally relative. They are, generally, less corrupted than, say, the Church of England (no longer Christian).
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4. Ultimately, Evangelicalism is being subverted by what I call technocratic liberalism & others call “the Cathedral”. It’s a sort of Christianity without Christ that favours egalitarianism. The CofE spouts its talking points, & some Evangelical orgs have also been subverted.
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5. Technocratic liberalism is, as Nietzsche observed of socialism and the left in general, merely another stage in the degeneration of Christianity (Protestantism more specifically). So it seeks to undermine the least entropic parts of Protestantism.
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6. This is why the BBC/PBS/universities and the chattering classes hate Evangelical Protestantism so much and make so many programs ridiculing it. It’s like a fight between Trotskyites and Stalinists. The competition is fierce, because these are two similar sects.
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That the two are closely related is undoubtedly true. Whether we are seeing degeneration or progress or something else I cannot say. But I suspect the ridicule from the intelligentsia will become harder to maintain as Christianity becomes less identified with whiteness.
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