in a culture that worships science, relational propositions will always be left out of arguments attempting to surface truth. we believe, quite simply, that unless we chart something, it doesn't exist. and you can't chart relationships. furthermore, in our attempts to make relational propositions look like chartable realities, all beauty and mystery is lost. and so when times get hard, when reality knocks us on our butts, mathematical propositions are unable to comfort our failing hearts. how many people have walked away from faith because their systematic theology proved unable to answer the deep longings and questions of the soul? what we need, truly, is faith in a being, not a list of ideas." -Donald Miller
the myth of America as a Christian nation, with the church as its guardian, has been, and continues to be, damaging both to the church and the advancement of God's kingdom. Among other things, this nationalistic myth blinds us to the way in which our most basic and most cherished cultural assumptions are diametrically opposed to the kingdom way of life taught by Jesus and his disciples. Instead of living out the radically countercultural mandate of the kingdom of God, this myth has inclined us to christianize many pagan aspects of our culture. Instead of providing it with a radically alternative way of life, we largely present it with a religious version of what it already is. The myth clouds our vision of God's distinctly beautiful kingdom and thereby undermines our motivation to live as set-apart(holy) disciples of this kingdom."-Gregory A. Boyd "myth of a christian nation"
