Discerning Passenger: Dude, there’s a train coming. Don’t drive onto the tracks!
Emergent Driver: Whoa, man. You are sooo negative! Lighten up, dude. That train is in YOUR reality, not mine. I see nothing but clear blue sky.
Discerning Passenger: Stop, dude! The train will hit us!
Emergent Driver: Your dogmatic, absolute truth stance is the reason you have few friends. Relaaaax, man. Enjoy life…
Discerning Passenger: This is not an opinion, the train is REAL!
Emergent Driver: Dude, truth is only valid if it is well-received by your audience. I am texting pastor Zed to tell him what a zero you are. He says never let truth get in the way of viewing life through the monist hologram construct where I find my inner peace.
Discerning Passenger: I’m bailing out…
Emergent Driver: You’re stuck in the 1900s, dude. I choose to be relevant to today’s culture……….CRASH
Petra Hefner
October 6, 2010 at 9:44 am
Another good one!
Truthinator
October 6, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Thanks for your kind words and for the support of my blog. I have some articles I need to write when I find the time.
fleebabylon
October 10, 2010 at 5:50 pm
At the heart of the emergent is the thought that even if trains do exist, there is no way one would crash into them (and that their cool hairdo would protect them on the far out chance that one did).
An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes… ~Psalm 36 NKJV
It would be easier to identify emergents if they dropped the name, stopped pretending to be Christians, and went back to overt paganism.