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Submitted by Arthur Pontynen, Feb 25, 2007 11:16

"What's really going on is a global shift in American power and influence over the rest of the world."

Is that really the core issue? I think not. Trinitarian Christianity believes in a Transcendent and Immanent God; Modernism-Postmodernism deny genuine Transcendence. Or to put the point directly: to be a Liberal Modernist-Postmodernist Christian is to be an apostate. It is to engage in self-deification.

It is simply that the African Anglicans can see this while the American church is, as Wittgenstein put it: a fly in a fly-jar unable to see where it is.


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