tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286599265273958850.post4892125373400556226..comments2023-10-31T07:21:09.792-04:00Comments on William L. Anderson: Some Thoughts on Good FridayWilliam L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286599265273958850.post-46191138225699170152010-04-03T18:21:21.558-04:002010-04-03T18:21:21.558-04:00Once one defines Christianity as being primarily t...Once one defines Christianity as being primarily the presence of a welfare state, then all bets are off. That is what we see here; people like McLaren and Wallis declare that only post-modern thinking is allowable, and then all Christian doctrines must fit into the Politically-Correct secular doctrines that guide our age.William L. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01802990642236807359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286599265273958850.post-91378312761377867082010-04-03T17:29:26.494-04:002010-04-03T17:29:26.494-04:00I'm starting see more how progressives and eme...I'm starting see more how progressives and emergents have to tie ideas into knots to get a Jesus who was anti-Roman Empire. Taken on its own, the Gospels and New Testament as a whoel say little if anything against Roman, and are quite clear that we are to obey the authorities. The only place I can think of that may be against authority is when the disciples tell the religious leaders "We should obey God rather than men" when commanded to no longer preach Jesus.<br /><br />I suspect their rhetoric has less to do with the NT being anti-Roman than with themselves being anti-America, or maybe anti-West as a whole.jazzact13https://www.blogger.com/profile/17437006437523413659noreply@blogger.com