One of the most offensive claims that Christians make is that their narrative governs after-life destinations. Numerous groups find these claims offensive. For many others they simply seem to have insufficient grip to change behavior.
Moral Performance or Religious Fidelity?
The most common post-death narrative imagined or asserted is that “good people” after they die go to a nice place as some sort of reward, and something else happens to “bad people” after they die as some sort of punishment. The particulars that differentiate “good people” from “bad people” are conveniently vague. Most simply assume that their standards of morality are the right ones, and that these standards will determine the outcomes.
Many who seem to easily stomach this post-life assignation by moral value take offense at religious systems like Christianity that assert a privilege. These religious systems assert that in fact those who were faithful to their religious tradition will receive good post-death accommodations while those who had the bad judgment or unfortunate circumstance of not being born into or choosing the correct religious tradition go to a bad place, or dissolve, or simply get less in the after-life than those who climbed the pecking order of the correct religious group. Continue reading
Gay Oppression and the Money Test
This piece by Timothy Dalrymple surely will catch fire. It cites a study showing the financial and political power of the gay community.
The article would have been interesting enough if he hadn’t turned to use it to respond to the Giglio affair.
How do you determine who the real victims are? Count the money. In a postmodern world money is the only test that counts. See the piece on Postmodernism being dead.