Yep. I don't think that, say, Kierkegaard (you know, that version of Christianity that actually requires sacrifices) would be very impressed by most US Christianity.
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
[WS:] Interesting thought, but I am not quite sure if true. I think "we" are a consumerist country in which religious veneer is simply used to create a warm, homey, feel-good ambiance and to push intellectual commodity. What you take for x-tianity is really a kick-ass, shock jock intellectual product, a form of cultural elite bashing, grounded in
anti-intellectualism, and appealing to the types who are uncomfortable with social economic and technological change.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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