Benjamin Cain
1 min readApr 9, 2023

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The point in that article is that authentic Christianity is countercultural, assuming that dominant cultures tend to be compromised by politics and by other natural, unspiritual norms. But Christianity became just such a mainstream culture, as an organized religion. That makes for a structural, existential problem for Christians.

I don't know what your objection to that argument is supposed to be. Are you saying that organized Christianity is still sufficiently spiritual and in line with Jesus's message?

Of course there's been pushback against Christianity, especially in the modern period (and in the medieval one, by Islam). So the US is a secular nation that emerged from the modern revolutions of science, humanism, and individualism. Protestantism helped propel that Western secularism.

But the fact that secular modernity isn't in line with Jesus's counterculture doesn't mean that organized Christianity was all along an authentic expression of Jesus's vision. A counterculture can be betrayed or opposed in multiple ways. Organized religion and secular modernity both went their separate ways from Jesus.

If you'd like to talk about something, maybe you could identify something I said that you disagree with, and state your objections to it in a clear way.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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