I am continuously shocked by conversations with people on the so-called religious right who are parroting Nietzchean approaches to power and Darwinian approaches to survival. They don't seem to realize how secularized their expression of faith has become. This is a colossal...
failure of pastoral work, discipleship in the Gospel, and secularization of the church's very mission. While such failures happen on both left & right, the right seeks to maintain that it is a bastion of theological orthodoxy; that is far from the case.
The renewal in pastoral work, deepening faith, and rooting the Church in the teaching of Jesus on the ethics of power, weakness, the marginalized, & the Kingdom of God rather than the kingdoms of politics and economics, is past critical to 'grave'. @Peter_Wehner @DavidAFrench
Again, this is simply based on personal conversations. People stunningly say things that reflect the abdication of what they once claimed was a 'Judeo-Christian Worldview'. What they have in its place has more in common with Peter Singer than Jesus and the fruit of the Spirit.
And again, my dismay is directed within at church leadership rather than at these people directly. The failure to disciple - including cultivating catechizing communities that form resilient discerning disciples - is unmistakable & widespread. More time in face to face community
and deeper saturation with the Gospels - with the Jesus way - is absolutely essential.
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