Whose New Jerusalem Is It, Anyway?
Dec. 5th, 2007 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaInteresting article on Huckabee and Romney.
Also, the asymmetry is interesting - yes, Mormonism is a "new" variant of Christianity, and one homegrown here in America, but the sort of Bibliolatric fundamentalism that Huckabee practices (and preaches) is, too. It's a little older, but not much. It didn't come up with an extra couple of testaments, strictly speaking, but the ridiculous dispensationalism and other proof-text trappings might as well be, for all the relationship they hold to the Biblical text as written.
I'm not really very fond of either of them, but that one of them feels like he needs to explain himself on national TV from College Station, of all places, and the other one pretty much gets a bye is . . . bizarre.
Also, the asymmetry is interesting - yes, Mormonism is a "new" variant of Christianity, and one homegrown here in America, but the sort of Bibliolatric fundamentalism that Huckabee practices (and preaches) is, too. It's a little older, but not much. It didn't come up with an extra couple of testaments, strictly speaking, but the ridiculous dispensationalism and other proof-text trappings might as well be, for all the relationship they hold to the Biblical text as written.
I'm not really very fond of either of them, but that one of them feels like he needs to explain himself on national TV from College Station, of all places, and the other one pretty much gets a bye is . . . bizarre.
