1. The exact quote: “The only time when I really felt I knew what I was doing”. To me, people know what they are doing when they are being told or when their back is to the wall: wars and extreme survival situations. A small elite can set their own course, but most cannot.
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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