Fake Deacon Michael Coren
I’m currently finishing up Michael Coren’s new book which is entitled Reclaiming Faith: Inclusion, Grace, and Tolerance. Of course, it’s incorrectly titled because he doesn’t show any tolerance for people who hold the traditional position on marriage. I’m about 80% done the book. Expect a review here and based on what I’ve read so far, expect it to be just as bad as his last book. I’ll admit that I enjoyed shredding that book.
Michael Coren is the type of person who gave up traditional religion for liberal religion. Why did he find it attractive? First of all, I want to say something about liberal religion. It’s a contradiction in itself. It exists to please man. If someone can’t handle religion how it has always been preached then they get the soft watered down version. It’s all about man and not the divine.
I should also point out the ironic reality of liberal religion. It only exists because conservative religion once existed. Three generations ago, Michael Coren’s religion, the Anglican Church was more solid on key issues. Now they’ve essentially capitulated to what the world wants. The only reason it’s liberal today is because it existed in a traditional form in times past. One hundred years ago, Anglicanism was conservative and traditional. One hundred years from now it won’t exist as an institution because they’ve decided to become liberal.
A friend of mine in the states told me that her sister was attending a liberal Methodist Church with a female pastor. Obviously this only exists because the Methodists used to actually believe in traditional religion. It’ll be gone in fifty years. All of these mainline denominations will be gone in because they’ve decided to go liberal and most people don’t find liberal religion attractive. But a few people do? Why?
If we look at the case of Michael Coren, we see that he had a massive crisis of faith in late 2013 and early 2014. He let his emotions take over and scripture and tradition took a back seat. Over the next year, this crisis spiralled out of control until he is what he is today. He had lost the true faith but still wanted to believe in something probably because it felt comfortable. Also, he probably knew that atheism was really far fetched.
Basically liberal religion is attractive to people like Coren because he gets to customize what he believes. He has some practicing homosexual friends and thought that they seemed like good people. Once the rules could be bent in this area why not other areas? You can believe whatever you want. He now criticizes many churches for being tough on homosexuality and slack on divorce and it’s more important because Jesus actually critiqued divorce(though he only banned divorce and re-marriage). The truth is that Coren doesn’t believe in Christ’s teaching on divorce and re-marriage. In fact, his Anglican religion was founded on an explicit reject of Christ’s teaching on divorce and re-marriage. But none of that matters. The best part of liberal religion is that you get to believe in whatever you want. Michael Coren can believe in whatever he wants now. No more scripture and no more tradition. Just the opinions of me, me, and me.
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