I read it — it has interesting points — what do you think of the 12th and 16th paragraphs?
>> I read it — it has interesting points — what do you think of the 12th and 16th paragraphs?
I read it as well. It was an anti-Protestant screed on par with the anti-male feminist screed “The SCUM Manifesto” (http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm) — in that it is both delusional, and reveals more about the author than it does the subject.
Paragraphs 12 and 16 are entirely based on false premises, and thus just as preposterous as the remaining paragraphs. Paragraph 16 is a continuation of the statement in Paragraph 15 ...
“Protestantism [...] degenerated into a mindless form of Christianity. At best, it exhausted itself in pious practices, moralizing, and social work, as though one could long remain in agreement [...] without the active involvement and adhesion of the human mind. At worst, it became an insane religion, whose liturgy encompassed bodily writhings and senseless howling.”
Protestantism is characterized as “mindless” and “at best pious moralizing without the active involvement of the human mind”; “at worst an insane religion of bodily writing and senseless howling”. He constructs straw men (such as joyless Protestantism, “complete depravity”, “permanent fast”, etc.) in order to reach his insane conclusions about the nature of Protestantism. That he couches his insanity in big words doesn’t really impress me.
If you deem his characterization of Protestanism “interesting points”, we really have nothing further to discuss. A “barren harvest” would not bring millions upon millions of people to Christ — as that remains the definition of a fruitful harvest.
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