ourbrainhurts

In reading this Atlantic article, I couldn’t help think of the emergent church:

More damning is the conclusion produced by a careful reading of this often fine-grained semi-sociological analysis: a good deal of the progressives’ attitudes, preferences, and sense of identity are ingrained in an unlovely disdain for those outside their charmed circle… [M]uch of their self-satisfaction derives from consumption—and much [it] is motivated by a desire to differentiate themselves from the benighted. Sushi, for instance, is ‘everything [White People] want: foreign culture, expensive, healthy, and hated by the “uneducated.” ’ And whatever its goals, the ACLU is beloved by White People, … because it protects them ‘from having to look at things they don’t like. At the top of this list is anything that has to do with Christianity’—an aversion … rooted not in religious enmity but in taste (Christianity is ‘a little trashy’), formed largely by class and education.