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Witnessing an incredible amount of people walk away from the Church and faith, for different reasons. I’m not sure if any of this could have been avoided. Obviously the Church needs to repent and change but I wonder if this mass exodus out of “faith” is just the fruit of the age.
I heard James K.A. Smith recently explain that we live in a time when “everything is contestable” which is a way of saying that nothing is trustworthy enough to bear the weight of our allegiance.All belief systems now suffer from the scrutiny of the question “by whose authority?”
But the way of dealing with this crisis (by my observation) is for individuals who have jettisoned a belief system to gather a new tribe and to create a new belief system. The problem is the question remains: “by whose authority”. The main issue I see with Deconstructionism is...
that it cannot bear the scrutiny of it’s own critique. This is the irony of post-modernism. We have burned down the scaffolding and now we are left to ourselves. And because people need gods to serve ,hardly anyone loses their religion just to go float on the sea of true atheism.
We just repackage our desires for transcendent gods in less culturally offensive branding. Which to some degree is perfectly agreeable but my hunch is these new pseudo religious tribes who tend to gather around a personality in the guise of a guru will eventually...
become disenchanted in ways similar to their relationship with mainstream religions, once the “new” becomes a few months old (or after they get tired of paying their club dues. Every tribe has dues.) The new gurus all have the same disadvantage that all priests have ever had
in every epoch of human history: they are human.
