Its okay for the most part, but he is assuming, if I read him correctly, that

1) any kind of cultural influence on the expressions of a faith is bad

and following from (1),

2) there exists a neutral ground for Christian faith to express itself.

To that I would respond

1) and 2)

people happen to express their faiths differently, and that should be obvious. There is nothing wrong, per se, with cultural window dressing, provided it is seen for what it is. There is nothing inherently wrong with the expressions of either the newly converted man from jungle Africa and the sophisticated urbanite at First Presbyterian. (there are, of course, other factors at play).

Now, if we were to drop the cultural baggage, what would we put in its place? Ah, that's the hard part. Even critiquing "Americanisms" in Christianity presupposes (which no Klinean will admit) that there is indeed a biblical blueprint for culture (how else could the American, Confederate, Brazilian, Emergent culture, etc be bad?).

More thoughts in a second.

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J. B. Atken
John Knox PCA
Layman, M.A. student at Louisiana College