To be, or to self define, that is the question

In the continuing assault on objective reality, just as gender is now determined by feelings rather than chromosomes, race is subject to self-declaration rather than ancestry.

Such subjective relativism has even infected otherwise sensible evangelicals who appear to think it is more significant for a bishop to self-define as an evangelical than just be one.

At one end of the spectrum, some will point to the tremendous opportunities for evangelicals: the resources being released for church planting, the numbers of Bishops who self-define as evangelical, new initiatives such as ‘Thy Kingdom Come’, the historic advantages of the parish system and the theologically orthodox formularies.

This is the fruition of Sartre’s contention that since – supposedly – God does not exist, our existence precedes our essence. In other words, we were not in the mind of God before we came to be, so we have no predetermined essential nature other than that which we create subjectively for ourselves. What an odd malady to infest the church.

3 thoughts on “To be, or to self define, that is the question

  1. And that is the answer the incumbent Federal Government is refusing to answer, forcing the democratic populace to seek information from its duly elected and representative Members of Parliament by a curious process of petition by e-mail:
    this reported by Barbara Kay at the Friday, January 17, 2020 ‘National Post’.
    As also posted, when the Cultural Marxist wash is hung out, as the Charter requires, at the Supreme Court, will the ‘C’ in Bill C-16 discover it stands for Christians:
    real as opposed to fake ones?
    Or will they be hung out to dry?

    • By contrast, (v.’Christian Post’) with the Trump Administration’s International Commission on Religious Freedom present, et al., on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, the annual (aet.1992) presentation of ‘Open Doors’ World Watch List of the top 50 Countries persecuting Christians:
      North Korea no.1 for 18 years running;
      China “the greatest threat to human rights”;
      Iran “has put its full faith into persecuting Christians”;
      and Nigeria leading in Africa “an ideology to push Christians out of these communities” + 6000 since 2013, whose Niagara,Ontario, Christian Ogunkoya Family still await their deportation fate…
      v. ‘Citizen Go’, ‘Faytene’.
      By greater contrast, the “grown-up conversations” Primates (ACC included) recent meeting in Amman, Jordan, preparatory to Lambeth 2020; there exhorted to accept “good disagreement” on issues of human sexuality, and cease to “look inward” and instead “look outward”.
      Byron comes to mind,
      ‘The Primates look down like wolves on the fold,
      their presence all gleaming in purple and gold…
      for the idols still stand in the temple of Baal……’
      ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’

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