Intellectual Evangelicals
Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Anyway, Jacques Berlinerblau reflects on the “intellectual” aspects of the Evangelical Manifesto, and he’s not entirely impressed.
Apparently it affirms the right of securalists to participate in the “civil public square”. But the authors worry that as the “global public square” emerges they see two “equal and opposite” [my emphasis] errors to avoid. French-style secularism and religious extremism on the other side, typified by Islamic violence. The idea that any form of secularism is equal to the violence of religious fundamentalists be they Islamic or Christian nut jobs who kill in the name of their religion is preposterous.
I would have thought the two errors are on the one side Fundamentalist Christians that think it’s OK to murder doctors because they perform abortions and on the other Islamic terrorists. At least here you have an equal lack of tolerance for differing ideas, the same lack of appreciation for the lives of others, and a similar but idiotic belief in imaginary friends.
