The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus: Dispatches from the by Tom Breen

By Tom Breen

The booklet offers a funny examine modern Christianity throughout the skewed lens of the web Theologian, a pompous, absurdly self-important pundit whose self assurance in his pronouncements may be matched in basic terms through his utter loss of easy information regarding his subject material. Believing that the single factor a true theologian wishes is a cable modem, the web Theologian touches on Christianity's dating with tune, activities, best-selling novels, and vacations, between others. The ebook additionally encompasses a convenient box consultant to a few of the methods american citizens interpret Jesus.

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18 8 Introduction dense, pricey books they churn out on a regular basis to dominate the public discussion. Sounds like a pretty good racket, doesn’t it? S. ”9 Since the Internet Theologian is not a provincial, narrow-minded yokel, I believe other forms of sourcing should be included in important works like this one. For example: most scholars would not consider, say, a scrap of conversation I overheard in an elevator as a “reliable” source of information about the Bible. Yet is this “way of knowing” any less valid than the narrow, Western method?

Seriously, nothing against the Unitarians, but could Jefferson have been more wrong? What a schmuck! Section 2—The Bible: Don’t Worry; You Don’t Have to Read the Whole Thing For most Christian groups that don’t revolve around the scrawled prophecies of armed lunatics, the Bible is the 8 I came across Jefferson’s hilariously wrong-footed prediction in Stephen Prothero’s excellent American Jesus. Readers should be warned, thought, that the Prothero book is an actual work of scholarship by an actual scholar, and therefore contains far fewer uses of the word “schmuck” than the present volume.

Although they were once among the most fiery and fulsome advocates of their own particular brands of Christianity, most mainline churches are now organized around the principle of not making a fuss. E vangelical Protestants: These are the Protestants who strike fear in the hearts of atheists, liberals, mainline Protestants, and those Hollywood studios hoping to market films to “the heartland” successfully. Most Southern Baptists are evangelical, as are some Presbyterians, 6 Source: a thing I wish Walt Whitman would have said.

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