logicp_writings/collectivist_theology/post-Evangelical Christians.md

post-Evangelical Christians

• post Christian
• post modern
• They're just getting started So even the naming convention right away says we are about something revolutionary, because it has to replace something. The concept of Christianity itself is something which has to be sublated into something which serves the liberation of man as a social animal. This is an old game and it spans the entire history of mankind, with its endpoint at the moment of imminentization

Post-anything means that thing has failed and was not what it was supposed to be. Post-Marxists even try to claim that they are not Marxist, for example, though they retain the core.

The core in this case, however, is difficult to maintain, because the core of Christianity is the idea of something being beyond time and matter, but the goals of a post-Christian faith are to focus more intensely on those problems of time and matter.

That they are just getting started means that they don't even know what it is supposed to be, just that it shouldn't be what it was or what it even is right now. It needs to be taken over, its symbols, its artifacts, its history, its concepts, its peoples, and to have all such things consolidated into the process of seeking that which has not yet come to be.

Sprawling tradition

• nonsensical
• Rambling and incoherent Christianity itself, at least insofar as it exists in the United States, is something unreasonable and antiquated. You see, over and over in this article, the use of terms like "sprawling" to describe the institutions of Christianity which have thus far existed (and which aren't part of the new synthetic reformation intended as its replacement). Christianity was misguided, unfocused, meandering, guided by the worst aspects of mankind, and corrupt with the ideologies which manifest to enable the fallen to rationalize their depravity.

Framing

• white conservatism
• Christian nationalism
• male privilege
• obsession with regulating sexuality White means racist because it imposes the distinction of race. Regardless of whether the invocation or the assignment of this term is itself racist, the fact of identifying something as white implies that that thing is racist.

But not only that, we are associating it with Christian Nationalism. That means that it is White Christian Nationalism. It also brings in male privilege, which is another way of saying Patriarchy - so we are bringing in the standpoint epistemology of critical feminist theory, which is a Marxist theory of sex. It steps it up a notch and says "obsession with regulating sexuality", by both cementing the feminist critique of saying that women can't have an identity of their own because it is defined, in this clause, by the regulation of their sexuality, but it also opens the door to making this about queer liberation, which is certainly to come more explicitly in the writing.

Overall, we can see that this all means Fascism. We are placing all of the identifiers which reference the popular view of Nazism, the commonly understood formulation of Fascism (very few people have actually read about Fascism proper). This is done because it is now patriarchal nationalism on principle of race. This means that Christianity itself is represented as Patriarchal Nationalism on principle of race, and this is just the beginning of the article. A controversy is introduced and a dialectical inversion is being formed as a proposal to the reader.

Who The Real Fascists?

Of course, what's really happening here is something that has happened before. The idea of humans having beliefs and thoughts of their own - having their own capacity to discern and contemplate in pursuit of truth - this is something which conflicts with a state which makes declarations about what is true. The state can't simply function to an extent of saying that it doesn't know something. It only makes statements in a manner which implies certainty or, at the very least, congruence with the highest authority on a particular matter. The idea that there could be a populace which is performing its evaluations outside of the pool of expertise recognized by the state is offensive and threatening to the state apparatus.

As a state becomes increasingly authoritarian, it needs for its subjects to be perfectly compliant and maintaining a position which does not and cannot challenge the positions held by the state. As the driving factor for pursuit of truth is in man's contemplation of meaning and purpose in the world, it becomes clear that interest should be taken in those activities which allow for man to undertake the most explicit pursuit of truth under a setting without constraint of subject or procedure. Religion, philosophically-driven dissent, activism, psycho-naught i-cal exploration and similar are all activities for which the state isn't necessarily expected to be present, perform audits or provide direction (at least under normal circumstances and as per the precedents of our modern era.

The interfaith effort allows for the truth-seeking aspirations of individuals who happen to be involved with pursuit of an understanding of the world and their faith to be placed in an environment of ambiguity, where the presumption that participants are each in pursuit of the same will lend a false sense of security insofar of accepting declarations in the environment which are purported to be truth-oriented.

Politics

• Republican Politics
• Identifies as post-Evangelical
• Claims that this is an identity, as a political identity
• deconstructing "white evangelicalism"

Maintaining the name

• Liberation
• Depicts "who" God is
• "Saving" Evangelicalism
• Making a collective

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Growing power / smaller demographic

• White Christianity equivocation on basis of politic or demographic
  • Shrinking demographic - muh replacement theory
• (25 -> 15% of Americans)
• used to be liberal
• mostly applied to white conservatives
• Donald Trump (zealous enthusiasm)
• Roe v. Wade
• Supposes that judges come to their conclusions because they are bought off by religious organizations or because they are practicing for an ideology rather than their expertise in interpreting the law

Peak Power

• White evangelicalism currently at peak of political power
• Internal decline
• Exodus
• Older parents and mentors obsessed with culture war and conspiracies
  • Not praying or talking about bible
• Evidence of this because they can't tolerate those who speak out against Trump
  • Somehow coming to church and speaking about Trump makes you non-political
  • Evangelicals are political for not wanting to choose the correct politic for non-political reasons (prove your faith)

New Understanding of Christianity

• Progressive concerns to reforge faith
• "Intellectualism"
• Do the work of LGBTQ activism
• Deconstruct patriarchy
• Eliminate nationalism and militarism because Jesus
• Leaving "Conservative Whiteness" is Following Jesus

Gushee's Homonormativity

https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1271&context=socs_fac

• "Evangelical ethicist" published book "Changing our Mind"
• Argues Homonormative depiction of LGBTQ for church inclusion on interpretation of Bible
• Decries criticism aof progressives and Democrats
• "Following Jesus out of Am. Evang"

Keri's being "born again"

• Again the use of "sprawling"
• 20 year old partyer
• Gender discrimination - youth pastor becomes coordinator