The Cult of Life vs. the Culture of Life

Cult - a closed group or religious sect devoted excessively to one idea or person; an unothodox or false religion

Culture - growing, cultivated organisms or social community; refinement

A cult is narrowing and hierarchical. A culture is expanding and communal.

Cults point the finger outward and find everyone else evil and advise either isolation or evangelism to cleanse it. Cultures hand everyone some seeds and a hoe and sends them out to the garden together.

Cults are ultimately about death. Cultures are about life.

Evangelical Christianity is a cult. Liberalism is a culture.

The Derrida Christ(?)ians

Liberals trying to have conversations about serious moral and political issues with Radical Right-Wingers often feel like they are talking to an encyclopedia salesman with a memorized script. This is not accidental.

Check out the logic-busting Christ(?)ian agenda at apologetics.com and probe.org where there is a Student Mind Games Conference. A recent attendee lauds the program because:

"I had no idea what to expect except from what Jerry Solomon had portrayed for the juniors and seniors at my high school. He acted as a professor from a large university who was adamant about his dislike for Christianity. The professor allowed no one to ask him questions because he was the one asking the questions. "

Mind games, indeed.