Makaden,

Am I correct to assume you feel a person must accept a pre-modern worldview in order to be Christian?

If that is not the case, then I don’t know how to understand your statement. I go out of my way to first understand the gospel within a pre-modern worldview but then allow it’s core truths to live on after that worldview has ended by seeking to understand that worldview and factoring in how it has flavored the message. The gospel may have been first told within that worldview but the gospel is not simply a mandate to return to that worldview.

As for western colonialism, I view it as another of the many forms of Imperialism that has infested humanity. I see the core pupose of the kingdom of God as being a movement to rid the world of those values. It really doesn’t matter if the values are materialized in Egyption slave labor, Persion or Greek conquest, corruption of the Jewish temple elites, Roman Imperialism, or British and now American colonialism.

Your criticisms of “liberalism” seem to be shallow and aimed at a completely fabricated straw man which doesn’t exist. Liberal theology is the most sincere attempts to recover an authentic faith in the message of Jesus using every ounce of information at our disposal. Everything else seems to be the result of the unwillingness to embrace some aspect of the knowledge we have available which inevitably leads to a less informed decision based on personal opinion or biases handed down through tradition. Why not allow all the possibilies to shape our decisions? Why not make the best decisions we can make using all the information we have?