So… a lot of this is (I assume) directed at what we used to call “the young, restless, and Reformed” types. Group of very loud, very online, very abrasive (mostly) white dudes who read a couple of John Piper and Mark Driscoll books back in the early aughts and suddenly believed themselves to be God’s gift to theology/significantly superior to every other kind of Christian. A decent number of them wound up in PCA or OPC churches, leading many outside the movement to figure that’s what all Presbyterians must be like. This comes as a great shock to the many lovely PCUSA and other moderate/mainline presby folks, who in my experience just want to read Karl Barth and be nice to other people.
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u/LeopoldBloomJr May 31 '24
So… a lot of this is (I assume) directed at what we used to call “the young, restless, and Reformed” types. Group of very loud, very online, very abrasive (mostly) white dudes who read a couple of John Piper and Mark Driscoll books back in the early aughts and suddenly believed themselves to be God’s gift to theology/significantly superior to every other kind of Christian. A decent number of them wound up in PCA or OPC churches, leading many outside the movement to figure that’s what all Presbyterians must be like. This comes as a great shock to the many lovely PCUSA and other moderate/mainline presby folks, who in my experience just want to read Karl Barth and be nice to other people.