2. I think this is obvious in religion. Islam means submission to the will of Allah, and Roman Catholics submit to the Church. “Religion” derives, in part, from the Latin “to bind fast”. It places a person under authority; it is this absence that destroys many under modernity.
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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Time will tell. Pentecostalism may be more robust than Evangelicalism, particularly in Africa, a continent whose influence is likely to grow greatly in the next decades.
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It depends how far technocratic liberalism can undermine Penetcostalism. The Roman Catholic Church has been largely, if not entirely, subverted. Doesn’t bode well. Africa will never have any influence, but her population explosion will cause significant geopolitical problems.
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We'll have to agree differ on our prognosis with regard to African influence. My hunch is that Africa's sheer weight of numbers will have a major cultural influence on Europe, but this is guesswork. My other hunch is that Africa is less open to technocratic liberalism.
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