Reply #34: Part of the problem is that they have no culture of learning [View All]

[Alcibiades]

within their religious tradition, by which I mean fundamentalist protestantism. Judaism is a religion of scholars. Catholicism has the Jesuits, and a wholly developed theological system. Mainline protestantism has boasted some of the most learned theologians in Christianity as a whole in the last century. Hindus, Buddhists and most other Eastern religions are also of a scholarly bent.

But fundamentalist evangelical Protestantism? Purely entrepreneurial. Right theology is proven by whoever buys the most airtime and shouts the longest. Their theology comes from a bunch of self-promoting Elmer Gantrys who have pulled it all out of their asses.