This now-deleted article has received an avalanche of mockery, even hitting the @Not_the_Bee status. TGC has hit the ceiling of self-fabrication. Calvin writes that man is an idol-factory, which can be broadly applied even to Christian institutions.
This attempt at grabbing readership becomes a self-fabricating reality used to connect the Gospel to things and people in a distorted attempt at harmony. It’s a pursuit of cultural relevance that provides no substance and leaves the faith in a place of despair, looking for something substantive to glue itself to in the culture and finding the lowest level of synergy with the lowest level of entertainment.
No one is disputing talent or how Christians should pursue excellence, but TGC is seeking an audience that is already inoculated with the mundane, who largely succumbed to societal pressures during COVID, and who may be ever-so-slightly sympathetic to the REVOICE agenda.
What these articles do is perpetuate the tendency to find common ground in lowly places; to connect the Gospel to the trivial and meaningless for some cultural and artistic brownie points.
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