[lbo-talk] The coming evangelical collapse

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 13 10:53:50 PDT 2009


On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Mark Bennett wrote:


> That's hitting the nail on the head. Of course, it takes a
> theologian of
> genuis to "articulate the Gospel with any coherence"; but, still, it's
> remarkable how these militant "Christians" are, in many cases, utterly
> ignorant of the Gospels, Christ, and the New Testament in general,
> except
> for The Book of Revelations, of course, read in the most literal
> manner
> possible.

I remember confronting that in my brief career teaching English at the University of Virginia in the late 1970s. I thought the kids would recognize biblical allusions - most grew up Christian. They didn't know it at all. I knew it better than they did.

Doug



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