In a 2009 speech given at an atheistic conference, the late philosopher Daniel Dennett coined the term deepity

to refer to statements that seem profound at first glance, but when you look closer,

they're just trivially true, like love is just a word or

their total nonsense like have faith and faith and some atheists say that theology

it's just a bunch of deepities. In this episode I'm going to

expose liberal Christian theology that really is just a bunch of worthless

deepities. Before I do that though I need to say that the existence of bad theology does not prove

that there is no good theology just as the existence of pseudoscience doesn't

disprove real science one good example of bad liberal Christian theology

can be seen in a 2019 New York Times interview with Serene Jones,

a Protestant minister and the president of Union Theological Seminary.

Here are a few of her deepities.

She says, the empty tomb symbolizes that the ultimate love in our lives

cannot be crucified and killed. Living a life of love is driven by the

simple fact that love is true. The message of Easter is that love is stronger

than life or death.

When I hear this kind of talk, I think of the episode of The Simpsons where Reverend Lovejoy is

selling ice cream flavors like Blessed Virgin Berry and Command Mint. He then offers Lisa Unitarian ice cream.

Wow, look at all these flavors. Blessed Virgin Berry, Commandment, Bible

gum. Or if you prefer, we also have Unitarian ice cream.

There's nothing here.

Exactly.

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