Tony Jones emerging with attack on fundamentalism
Good grief! What next will emerge from the emerging heretics! I said they would begin to attack those who believe the fundamentals of the Christian faith. They obviously have already begun.
Tony Jones is the latest to kill trees for his new book, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. This detailed review
reveals much about Tony Jones’ concept of a new kind of Christian. He
thanks none other than, say it together now, Brian McLaren, for helping
to birth his book. McLaren has a lot to answer for.
In the strange world of Tony Jones and his chicken-rights enthusiasts,
evangelical Christians have done nothing good for the world at all up
until now. Nothing. We are hypocrites, and we are evil because we care
about the state of human babies in the womb and people’s souls instead
of global warming and gay rights. In Tony Jones’ world, Jesus is the
same type character trotted out by the liberation theologians in Latin
America; Jesus, the revolutionary; Jesus, the re-distributor of wealth;
Jesus, the Al Gore-style Captain Planet who will save us from melting
polar ice caps; Jesus, the PETA animal rights crusader. But Jesus, the
King of King’s and only Savior of a soul on its way to hell? That would
be fundamentalism, folks. Don’t listen to them. They ruined everything.
