Theological Liberals and Theological Conservatives have no ability to dialogue because they speak contradictory languages. Purely Secular people (like journalists) have no ability to understand theological people whatsoever because they cannot even read the dictionaries (though they could be trained if they tried). This is one reason why we have such political animosity and misunderstanding concerning the evaluation of founding documents like the Constitution of the United States. The founders wrote with a dictionary in hand. Many today use something else to read the same words and come up with a misunderstanding that was unintended. Postmodernism is not all bad when it is used to help us with understanding. It is all bad when it is the basis of understanding (or not understanding as the case may be).
Posted by Blandus at September 30, 2003 04:14 PM