My name is Charles, and I’m the lead web designer at Dallas Theological Seminary. I’ve been writing here (and a couple of other places, off and on) for a couple of years, and I decided I needed to consolidate. So this is now my world.
The name of this site is a reference to the substance sold by Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) in the movie Formula 51.
ELMO: The drug’s a fake, you know. It’s bogus. It’s what we chemists call a placebo. It’s whatever you want it to be. You can run all the tests you want. It will look like the best [stuff] in the universe. But the ingredients…they cancel each other out.
LIZARD: Confusing the Lizard ain’t gonna help your cause.
ELMO: Got to give big ups to marketing. The ability to make people believe. The power of suggestion.
This is what I see in liberal/progressive/emergent theologians. They create this mashup of their favorite parts from Christianity and other religions, philosophy, social ethics, natural theology, and secular humanism and sell it as the “best stuff in the universe”.
But the truth is, the ingredients cancel each other out.
I’ve learned that conservatives and traditionalists are much the same, mixing in nationalism and moralism, instead of eastern philosophy and humanism. They don’t have the same tagline, though.
That’s not what I’ll be writing about all the time, but mostly. You’ll also find thoughts on design, technology, theology, the church, politics, and whatever I can think of.
Look around and let me know what you think.
Charles
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Chris
nice post. you have hit the nail square on the head. btw, the answer to the trio should always be yes.
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Thank you for this site and your article in other places, I was blessed by them and learned new staff.
You mentioned somewhere in your response to a comment you used to be part of a cult, and it seems like Boston Church of Christ Church. If so, do you have anything you wrote about it? I used to be a youth pastor and I see a lot of student facing this cult in universities and high schools.
In Christ
Tomas
Niema
Sorting lies and persuations from campaign points and membership drives can be tedious. How much hard core truth have you absorbed from your experiences? That includes feelings as well as perfunctory time placemarkers. Is that worth blogging/journaling about? I hope so, ’cause I’d love to read it.
IHS,
Niema
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