Week 2- Response to Darren S

I like what Darren had to say about the church in his response to this week’s reading in Cobb:

I think if we are to claim that there actually is a real referent behind the signs of our religion, we better have a good explanation in this age of skepticism and a proclivity for “fabrications.”

I agree.  My impression in reading Cobb is that a primary challenge in contemporary culture is the absence of a desire for any real referent.  In some sense, it seems that the tendency to value the “image” rather than any sense of reality would leave little room for any doctrine that makes a claim of “reality.”  In essence, “truth” seems to have become less relevant than “appeal.”  Thus, Christianity loses relevance not because it fails to answer crucial questions, but because its source of value (its claim to be truth) is no longer an attractive element.