You have my sympathy; I went through some similar questions when I left Catholicism, decades ago.
It seems to me there are now two types of modern evangelicals: the ones who try to be modern by packing their message with feel-good sentiment and washing all real meaning out of it, and the ones who are attempting to buck the trend by trying to return to a more "fire-and-brimstone" based religion. Neither is doing their would-be flocks any favors, IMHO.
Coming from the tradition that you do, I'm not surprised that you're seeing, and despising, the second flavor of bad modern evangelism. Though Catholicism has some of the same too--look who's part of the current mainstay of the modern "right to life" movement. And to top it off, the Catholic mainstream has a heavy flavor of sexual hypocrisy to enliven the mix.
Ugh. I'd rather stay a lapsed neopagan--it's more honest.
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Date: 2006-10-22 10:01 pm (UTC)It seems to me there are now two types of modern evangelicals: the ones who try to be modern by packing their message with feel-good sentiment and washing all real meaning out of it, and the ones who are attempting to buck the trend by trying to return to a more "fire-and-brimstone" based religion. Neither is doing their would-be flocks any favors, IMHO.
Coming from the tradition that you do, I'm not surprised that you're seeing, and despising, the second flavor of bad modern evangelism. Though Catholicism has some of the same too--look who's part of the current mainstay of the modern "right to life" movement. And to top it off, the Catholic mainstream has a heavy flavor of sexual hypocrisy to enliven the mix.
Ugh. I'd rather stay a lapsed neopagan--it's more honest.