Comments on: Playing Halo Alone? http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/playing-halo-alone/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Emergent Liberal Community | After Corbu http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/playing-halo-alone/#comment-2748 Emergent Liberal Community | After Corbu Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:23:48 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/playing-halo-alone/#comment-2748 [...] an easy solution to the controversy over evangelical churches hosting Halo [...] [...] an easy solution to the controversy over evangelical churches hosting Halo [...]

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]]> By: Joseph http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/playing-halo-alone/#comment-2642 Joseph Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:36:33 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/playing-halo-alone/#comment-2642 I wonder at times about the utility of these institutions since despite the great benefits they give to their members they are profoundly illiberal and hostile to liberal mores and institutions. Furthermore, these institutions are decaying and are going to die out in the not to distant future. I grew up in a profoundly fundamentalist Christian household and I am a proud, open homosexual, as well as, a progressive liberal. Moreover, most of the kids I knew in the church drifted away from that community. In some ways, traditional communities two greatest strengths is group solidarity and strict social structure,and its greatest downfall. Because the moment you have someone who deviates from that structure they must either conform or be expelled. Most kids choose the latter. In one sense, I do agree with Rod Dreher, we godless liberals did win the cultural war. The question to me in this situation, isn't what good these institutions can provide but what institutions we can create to replace them. I wonder at times about the utility of these institutions since despite the great benefits they give to their members they are profoundly illiberal and hostile to liberal mores and institutions. Furthermore, these institutions are decaying and are going to die out in the not to distant future.

I grew up in a profoundly fundamentalist Christian household and I am a proud, open homosexual, as well as, a progressive liberal. Moreover, most of the kids I knew in the church drifted away from that community.

In some ways, traditional communities two greatest strengths is group solidarity and strict social structure,and its greatest downfall. Because the moment you have someone who deviates from that structure they must either conform or be expelled. Most kids choose the latter. In one sense, I do agree with Rod Dreher, we godless liberals did win the cultural war.

The question to me in this situation, isn’t what good these institutions can provide but what institutions we can create to replace them.

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