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Many mainstream Christians???particularly those most critical of the values of commercial American society and suspicious about serving God and Mammon together?are troubled by the way in which celebrated Evangelicals blend show biz and salvation. They deplore the star system they tend to foster and the amounts of cash required to maintain what has been referred to as the "country-and-westernization of religion...
...Christians???and perhaps to a good many others at this time of year ?the familiar details seem etched on the heart. Yet they have been questioned by liberal scholars for years. Though often believers themselves, these scriptural experts have challenged nearly everything in the Nativity story: the angels, the star, even the wise men. As recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even...
...great majority of Protestant and Catholic clergymen and theologians?as well as many non-Christians???agree that Christianity is much stronger today than it was when World War II ended. Their reason is not the postwar "religious revival" (which many of them distrust as superficial) or the numerical strength of Christianity. It is that the Christian Church has finally recognized and faced the problems that have cut off much of its communication with the modern world...
Conclusions. Publicist Josef Bard asserts that Christians???1) subconsciously suspect that the New Testament is an emotional poison or at least a trick invented by the Jews and perpetrated upon Christians, whose competitive efficiency is reduced while that of the Jew is unimpaired; 2) realize the superior competitive efficiency of the Jew and seek to nullify it by violence, a game the Jew cannot play successfully...
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