Culture War as Class War

[A.Joseph]

This is a fascinating read.... I can’t help but think of men like Tim Keller, and wonder which side he falls, whether he realizes it or not....



https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/08/culture-war-as-class-war

 

[py3ak]

Very interesting, indeed. I think it is a significant weakness of the church in America, that respect for elites has been exaggerated and indiscriminate. It doesn't seem to me to have been institutionalized in quite the same way that occurred in England, but it has been pervasive.

Two points should serve to give us some freedom from caring particularly about the elites. The first is that Paul already pretty much told us that Christianity is likely to be lower-class: "not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble." The second is that the contemporary elites are often quite lacking in what should distinguish them "in a knowledge-based economy:" reason, common sense, perspective, judiciousness, and taste.

 

[A.Joseph]

Love this excerpt....
“Today the twin ideals of the authority of individual experience and a commitment to social criticism are dominant, the former a secularized version of Protestant modernism’s emphasis on experience over dogma, the latter a descendant of the social gospel movement and liberal Protestantism’s missionary cosmopolitanism. By conquering society’s leading cultural institutions, liberal Protestantism essentially made its own churches and congregations redundant......If cultural traditionalists want to survive, they must not only acknowledge but embrace the class dimensions of the culture war.”

Don’t under estimate.... what they lack in those things you mention they make up for in financed propaganda wrapped in a scholarly peer-reviewed bow

 

[Pilgrim]

An inordinate desire for respectability is a sure sign of impending apostasy.