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But, perhaps I'm the presumptuous one here. Maybe you have more to say about that. So, will you explain your comment here?

Certainly, I'll try. Hutson Smith takes great pains to develop the idea that liberals such as yourself have abandoned the idea of the Atonement of Christ in droves. You reject the resurrection of Christ and the virgin birth. So does Smith. Alrighty then. That seems to make sense about what folk like you say. And I do somehow agree with Smith about liberals being unable to reach God through their own brand of personal responsibility.

He goes on to develop the idea that a culture that abandons the spiritual implications of what Jesus did symbolically on the Cross, ala redemption and grace, simply fall back on secular naturalism and all hell breaks loose.

Smith is arguing in his new book that the symbol of Christ is justified in and of itself in carrying enough weight to retain Christians in Christianity because the message of redemption and grace cannot be replaced with vacant self help religion that is nameless and godless. I don't buy into his stuff, but he does seem to have his finger on the pulse of guys like you.

the oldtimer.

-- posted by Brother_Jones