In a recent column, I warned that Evangelical Chuck Crismier had been duped into hitching his ecclesiastical wagon to the growing Communitarian heresy infiltrating the church and Christian thought.
Now it seems similar errors are creeping into the mind of Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler as well.
Seems the plunge into heresy comes step by step and can no doubt be traced in part to Mohler's notion undermining the Christian liberty of the individual when he postulates one has fallen into a state of sin if one has not wed by their early 20's even if living in a state of chastity and abstinence.
In the May 3, 2006 entry at his blog, Mohler writes that civilization is at risk because "genuine community" is disappearing because of "giant concrete structures" and "elevated freeways".
As a frequent traveler of these "elevated freeways", is Dr. Mohler himself contributing to the decline of COMMUNITY he so eloquently laments? More likely though, elites such as himself are not to be bound by the travel restrictions and privacy limitations to be placed upon the rest of us all in the name of being a good neighbor and the like.
A theologian of Dr. Mohler's stature should realize that our culture is not necessarily in danger because of such structures but because of the decisions made by those dwelling in them. Thus, the fault lies not with insufficient group socialization but from not enough individual moralization.
Street gangs and terrorist cells provide the individual with a high degree of group acculturation as well, but these will not bring about the revitalization of America's blighted areas. Such renewal will only come about when each person takes responsibility for their own actions.
by Frederick Meekins
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