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Is a Neurotic Form of Christianity Destroying America?

“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]

The American Revolution and now

In 1776 a small group of rich landowners and businessmen, who wanted to protect their wealth, persuaded the anti-British 25% of the American population to commit treason and rebel against the other 75%, and against their legitimate government. They sought help on the ground and on the sea from the French, Dutch and Spanish, all enemies of the legitiate government … more treason. Today, it’s happening again, with the Kochs, et al, leading the Teabaggers and Republicans by the nose to commit political and societal treason against the American people, just to protect the wealth of the rich and large corporations.