Sort of an Introduction

This blog is to more or less keep tabs on interesting developments in Christendom, and in the spiritual world in general. Nothing is automatically out of the question here. On the other hand, nothing is automatically qualified to be worthy of mention.

The bias does tilt one way, however. I do not believe that liberalism can be reconciled with Christianity or any other religion. What I mean here is that the belief in a supernatural event, such as the resurrection of Jesus, makes it impossible to strongly disbelieve in any other Biblical miracle. "Yes, I believe that Jesus rose from the dead, but physics, chemistry, biology, and the fossil record prove that the natural world is billions of years old and that the human form evolved through a natural process."

The fallacy here is obvious: to believe that Jesus's reserruction is valid on faith, but that, say, a literal six-day creation is invalid because science disproves it, is to make a mockery of the entire canon called God's Word. Science as we know it obviously disproves Jesus's resurrection, just as easily as it disproves the six-day creation. It just isn't possible to logically assent to the miracles and resurrection of Jesus on the basis of faith in the canon of Scripture, yet turn around and say that Old Testament claims of creation and miracles can not be believed because they are scientifically unsound. Yes, there may be valid historical, linguistic, and theological grounds to believe one thing or another, but I will submit that if humanistic science is your only test, the claim of the divinity of Christ falls flat. Conversely, if you believe in the resurrection of Christ, you must concede at least the possibility of a six-day creation - the one isn't any less believable than the other.

The same is true for all religious belief. When the secularist/scientist gives an inch, the supernaturalist by all rights, by the very game the scientist plays, is entitled to take a mile.

Which means that Christians who seek scientific legitimacy,intellectual accountability, and cultural respect, are pursuing a fool's errand. Those who embrace the risen Lord but dismiss six-day creationists as close-minded fools, are at least as close-minded. It is only now that they are shocked - shocked - that they aren't getting the respect they feel they deserve. The culture, and the State, has passed them by. At least the "fundies," have consistency on their side; Christians who deem themselves liberal and scientific have nothing to offer the world. Conservative religions offer faith, paradox, and mystery; liberal religions offer faith and flagrant logical contradictions. No contest there.

I'm laying this out as a commentator, rather than as an advocate. This site is not about de-bunking religion and the supernatural, nor is it about affirming religion and the supernatural. It is about seeking clarity of thought, clarity of belief, clarity in faith.