I just realized that I am, by virtue of my belief that the bible is full of historical and other errors, a religious minority. Sure, there are baptists, pentecostals, catholics, anglicans etc. that would agree with me, but most churches, most "christians" globally believe things like adam and eve were real people, and the idea that the there is only one theological view/ethical view presented in the bible etc.
This hit me as a went to a worship service last night. The presence of the holy spirit was palpable and as people shared their testimonies of God changing their lives, it was evidence of the resurrection still changing things. You could kind of tell which people saw the bible more literally and which ones, like one of the leaders I met, had a more postmodern view of the bible. It is usually in worship that the divide beween the postmodern progressive and the literalist seem the least divisive. until someone makes a huge blanket statement I know is patently both a) usually bad theology and b) literalistic
it really saddened me. I guess the fact that most people don't love god with their ethics does not suprise me...that is hard to do. What amazes me is how most people waste their god-given brain and the wonderful tools of the enlightenment. cause just thinking aint hard. it is the doing in life that is hard! maybe that betrays my sedentary, reflective nature.
progressive, skeptical, postmodernist thinking is my native soil. the gospel grows in that soil just like it CAN grow in a modernist-fundemental soil, or grew in ancient world views.
but I wish more people liked the soil of the enlightenment.
if it was not for scientists and thinkers including freud and jung, I would already be dead. let alone Andrew Fleming (an enlightenment catholic) for finding penicillin.
