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Bad Ideas in Valorugs, January 17th, 2022.

Introduction.

So I've been going on for some years now, or maybe a decade or two, about the prospect

of a mere Christendom.

A few years ago, it all seemed pretty radical, but as time wears on, and as our mainstream

corridors of power seemed incapable of producing anything other than bad Ideas and Valorugs,

the idea of a mere Christendom has started to look more and more, alluring, at least to sensible

people.

That being the case, I thought this would be a good time to explain how the idea of mere

Christendom is not some theosyncratic idea of mine.

It comes from the Reform mainstream, and for most American Presbyterians, it is a confessional

issue.

I will explain that further in a moment.

But in the meantime, the fact that almost no one thinks of it as a confessional issue

is a plain demonstration of how the spirit of softpost modernism has taken over the

ostensibly reformed bodies of North America.

Richard Rurdy summed up this attitude nicely when he said, truth is what your contemporaries

let you get away with.

Any ordained minister in the OPC, or the PCA, or in any of the smaller reformed bodies

for that matter, who disagrees with the concept of mere Christendom, really is obliged in

simple honesty to take an exception to the American version of the Westminster Confession

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