Fr. Rutler: "Post Comfortable Christianity and the Election of 2012"

George Rutler's analysis - typically angular and requires some thought ... but worth the effort. Ten paragrpahs with St. Paul prominent.

This new period is not “Post-Christian” because nothing comes after Christ. We can, however, call it “Post-Comfortable Christian.” Niebuhr, looking out from New York’s Neo-Athens on Morningside Heights with its Modernist Christian seminaries and highly endowed preaching palaces and office towers of denominational bureaucracies, caricatured the Messiah of mainline religiosity: ”A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”