Intersectionality & the Rise of a New Religion | Tom Ascol | The Weekly Discourse

The Weekly Discourse | Dr. Tom Ascol lists some of the elements of “the new religion” and at the end of the lecture points us to what is the desperate need of the Church in this tumultuous hour, revival. We hope you will be edified and encouraged by this talk as you seek to faithfully navigate this perilous time. 

Today’s lecture begins with the subject of intersectionality and moves into what is really a crucial concept for us to understand – and that is that the rise of many such dangerous ideologies today should not be attributed simply to some kind of atheistic secularism or materialism, but it should really be attributed to the rise of a New Religion or a resurgent paganism.

If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend Dr. Peter Jones’ book “One or Two” where he fleshes out in detail the tenets of what he calls one-ism.

In the course, Dr. Ascol quotes Peter Jones as saying, “An ideology is taking over the West which is both very spiritual and self-consciously anti-Christian. It intends ever so subtly without ever saying so explicitly to grind the gospel into the dust bin of history.” He goes on to say “Whereas Scripture affirms two-ism (Creator-creature distinction and all the distinctions God creates in the cosmos he made), one-ism categorically affirms that things are not two, but one. In a cosmos without a creator, all distinctions collapse and man is god.”

This is fundamentally at odds with two-ist Christianity with the biblical Creator-creature distinction. Jones goes on to ask, “What will happen to gospel witness when Western culture is ‘purified’ of its literary canon and its Christian ethical past? The church must still speak and live out all issues of fundamental truth, whatever the cost. Not to save America, but to save souls from eternal doom.”

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