Lars Walker, commenting on disagreement about the authority of Scripture arising from the recent ELCA controversies:
It occurs to me that what we're seeing today in Christian liberalism is a new form of Gnosticism—a Gnostic heresy, if you will. The old Gnostics believed in a secret knowledge that was hidden from the unenlightened masses, and made them superior. The new Gnostics believe in a revelation which is secret in the sense of being personal—“I have my God who speaks to me things He/She might not say to you. However, for me, my revelation is authoritative, and nobody has any right to criticize it.”Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments: Egalitarian Gnosticism?
This new kind of secret religion is open admission, however. Instead of a small core of enlightened masters, everyone is now an enlightened master.
Except for conservatives, of course. Conservatives are just wrong. And hateful. .... [more]
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