'Secular Christianity' sounds like such an odd thing and yet I know it exists quite frequently in many mainline denominations. It is something I don't quite understand... An attempt reshape religion so that you can have the comfort of faith without the behavioral costs associated with tradional beliefs perhaps? Whatever it is, this type of belief seems to be both logically and statistically self-defeating. (Not to mention blasphemic from a religious point of view.)
... the secular theologian show a greater willingness to abandon belief in a life after death than does the unchurched man in the street…. And, at least in America, it seems that theologians today have a greater propensity to proclaim themselves atheists than the average, theologically untrained skeptic. The whole thing reminds one strongly of the old story of the drunkard who carefully walked in the gutter so that he could not possibly fall into it…. There is thus a built-in self-defeating factor in all such programs of ‘secular Christianity’. – Peter Berger
See my previous post on the decline of mainline denominations here.
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