Reflecting Theologically on Popular Culture as Meaningful by TurnauLance, if you would, please provide only a link to the articles you desire for us to read, and then give us at least a line or two concerning what you would want us to see in that article. Including the entire articles has a tendency to bog down email systems for those of us who keep the posts rather than deleting them. Saving many posts with lots of HTML code and graphics uses up a lot of resources.
I think this article by Turnau illustrates some of the problems on TruthTalk between those who lean toward the Calvinistic view of sin and those who lean toward the more evangelical view of sin. Obviously, I think Turnau is walking off the straight and narrow path with his discourse. I actually burst out in laughter here at work when I read one of his introductory paragraphs. Here is the paragraph: Turnau wrote: "Withdrawing from certain cultural texts and replacing them with others will not render the audience less sinful. Rather, the compulsive and organic nature of sin means that in eschewing certain cultural idolatries by disengaging ourselves from the surrounding culture, we are probably only setting up more socially acceptable idolatries that will be harder to detect and repent of (e.g., materialism, or the family, or pride in our own holiness)." In other words, if we withdraw from the sinful engagements of this world, we will not become less sinful, but rather we will only disguise our own sin (which can never be avoided), replacing it with idolatries which are simply harder to detect and repent of. LOL. Right. Avoiding sin and separating ourselves from this world system in which we live only makes us self righteous and would never make us holy. Do you really believe this stuff? I don't mean to sound antagonistic, and I probably disappoint you by commenting in this way, but most of the article was a sleeper for me, except for this humorous paragraph. It was a lot of the same-old, same-old, worldly, brain-washing philosophy I find in virtually every college. It facilitates an ivory tower mentality of being engaged with and involved with this world while maintaining an air of superiority "in Christ." Somebody needs to explain to Turnau what real self righteousness looks like. Peace be with you. David Miller. ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
