“The deconstruction of Christianity is not an attack on the
church but a critique of the idols to which it is vulnerable – the
literalism and authoritarianism, the sexism and racism, the militarism,
and the love of unrestrained capitalism with which the church in its
various forms has today and for too long been entangled, any one of
which is toxic to the kingdom of God.”
“Strategically, diplomatically, socially, politically, morally,
economically, evangelically, in every possible way we are witness today
to a low point in American leadership, an ethical, social, political and
biblical catastrophe.”
These passages from the book, What Would Jesus Deconstruct: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church (The Church and Postmodern Culture) by John Caputo,
taken out of context, might suggest that religion is the singular cause
for the continuing trajectory of a deepening dysfunction in our
society. But a twisted popular form of Christianity catalyzes two other
more powerful ingredients; predatory capitalism and a government that
serves the interests of big money.
These three powerful components work together to drag us down the
slope to more and more dysfunction in the name of a more moral society –
a moral society based on a set of values that are so misapplied as to
become destructive.
In other words, these three components create a moral society that destroys its own villages in order to save them.
[Read the full story by Robert De Filippis here at The Big Slice]
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