maineman/119: Karen @ 89 asks, “How in God’s Name did that happen??”

It all started about 3 centuries ago, when the Enlightenment project enshrined reason, allowing for it eventually to be uncoupled from its God-given origins and turned into the primary weapon of the post-modernists and other manner of usurper.

It was a rhetorical question. But you make a good point. The Enlightenment’s enthronement of reason DID do a lot to lead us along the road to postmodern confusion. Reason as the ONLY guide would be fine if it weren’t for the fact that reason, too, is corruptible. Ample evidence of that is continually on display from the Left as we speak.

BTW, when I posted my #89, I hadn’t read very many of the comments and had not seen Batman‘s post #76, which stated so very well what I was trying to get at.

maz2 @104: “Obama Gains Evangelical Allies on Immigration”

Yep, there’s a lot of them on board with the immigration thing, with social justice, with Creation Care (to save us from global warming), you name it… anything the Left can make mushy-feely enough to the undiscerning. They’re so busy cooperating with the Left’s agenda to save the world that the gospel of the salvation of Jesus Christ has become an afterthought, and lots of times not even that, since the gospel is so inconvenient when you’re trying to build all those ecumenical bridges. These are not the people who would fit the definition in the quote I mentioned above: “the soul that is stiffly independent because its anchor is beyond the regime’s reach.”