Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what was the greatest obstacle to the extension of Christianity. He answered: "Christianity."
Christianity faces the prospect of its own death through the death of its inadequately conceived Easter God. Christianity, as practised in New Zealand, is not credible and is dying.
If Christianity faces up to this full reality, it will survive to be a useful religious community. If it fails to shoulder the full weight of its own cross, it will not discover whether its Christian faith is really true.
Read it all.
A better link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=11239386
Armstrong's liberal response is to this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=11238116
Christianity faces the prospect of its own death through the death of its inadequately conceived Easter God. Christianity, as practised in New Zealand, is not credible and is dying.
If Christianity faces up to this full reality, it will survive to be a useful religious community. If it fails to shoulder the full weight of its own cross, it will not discover whether its Christian faith is really true.
Read it all.
A better link: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=11239386
Armstrong's liberal response is to this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=11238116
