Alex’s Heresies – embracing a physical reality

Progressive Christianity writers, like Karen Armstrong, Marcus Borg, John Shelby Spong, and Francis Macnab, seek to make God more reasonable within today’s scientific view of the world. God is now portrayed as an ineffable essence instead of a well-defined infinite being, now less conflicting with science. His influence is through personal experience and not physical interventions. The risk for Armstrong et al. is that they move God from unbelievable to irrelevant.

Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins submitted pieces to Wall Street Journal arguing this point (see link).

NZ Myers in his blog unabashedly declares that Saving gods by making them even emptier of meaning

I made a similar point about Progressive Christianity’s loss of authority by claiming so little at a recent public lecture to the local atheists society (and was taken to task by a member of the Progressive Christian movement).

Here are two formats of the presentation:
Atheist Society talk Sep 2009: Progressive Christianity pdf (right-click to save)
Atheist Society talk Sep 2009: Progressive Christianity (new web page)

Alex McCullie