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I posted a note about the synchroblog on some of the Christian newsgroups on usenet, and got some interesting replies.

Said that sine there aren't many monarchs arund nowadays, we should drop the monarchist imagery. One atheist troll wrote the usual stuff about rejecting lordship, ending up by saying that "It's 2009 after all", and I couldn't resist adding "In the year of our Lord".

But it's the most amazing kind of reasoning (or rather unreasoning) that people seem to think the giving the date clinches the argument.

Pretty distressing, Matt!
Thanks for the literary cup of coffee today--

hmmm not sure about this, although as a gut reaction I dislike patriachal language I find it difficult to find a substitute for kingdom...

Matt, this is really beautiful. Beautiful! Thanks!

Sally, my intention is twofold. Not only to provide a contemporary substitute, but more importantly, to subvert the inappropriate conflation of American national interests with Christian missional interests.

Nice use of scripture bro, but why do you think that you are subverting only America? ;-)

Oh, not only America Phil, I'm trying to subvert false "Christian nationalism" everywhere. America is just the most prominant and outspoken example. The wannabes are also on my hit list.

I like it! I think that other working synonyms for kingdom could be God's dream, story, culture, vision, etc,. Christian nation does not really work for me, but it would not have the same impact otherwise.

Matt,

This simple word substitution is a pretty neat challenge. It really reminds me that the Church is not the Kingdom.

Hey, if you connected with this post in any way you should all read Greg Boyd's review of the Patriot's Bible on Out of Ur.

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2009/05/book_review_the.html

Newly released from Zondervan, he flat out outs it as idolatrous.

It makes me long for it - the true Christian Nation, that is. :-)

Yes, let's not be satisfied with fakes.

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