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Wednesday 14 July, 02004

by Matthew Bartlett @ 9:07 am

My favourite contemporary apocalyptic prophet, in this week’s update [naughty words]:

Michael Moore gives me the chills and the creeps. I see America’s future in his ponderous, slovenly, lurching figure, stalking congressmen with his video camera and his childish rhetorical questions. I see a nation of feckless, clueless overfed crybabies building up to tantrum.

4 responses to “”

  1. hans says:

    Superb summary Matt, I read “Stupid White Men” and watched “Columbine” and concluded exactly what you have, my view not as well expressed as yours though.

  2. Hans says:

    Duh, sorry, thought you had written the Michael Moore comment. I still think you are clever.

  3. aaron says:

    The Kunstler article is very good. Consider, Matt and Tim, this paragraph:

    “Too often, we Christians have allowed our sentimental longing for Eden or a kind of functional gnosticism to ignore or passively endure the built environment around us. We have rejected the revealed model for our redeemed existence – the concrete and urban setting of the New Jerusalem – in favour of a privatized and abstract fantasy consisting of a detached mansion on a large swath of land.

    This is precisely why it is a spiritual matter to care enough about the flat that we clean up after ourselves, and why I challenge myself with the task. Too often, we cannot be bothered expressing our hope for this world and the love God has for it, by making our part of it wonderful to live in – in other words, by redeeming it. So we end up enduring it instead. Not a good picture of prophets, priests and kings.

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