Softening up Christianity for the Next Stage

If you look back to what I call "intermediaries" between true Christianity and a quite liberal branch in American religious history, you will see that the Unitarians were making inroads as early as the early 18th century. In response to the threat they made to Presbyterian pastorates, two Presbyterian pastors in Delaware headed a movement to require their pastors to assent to the major portions of the Westminster Confession. There was a lot of opposition to this, including flack from Benjamin Franklin who liked a certain Unitarian-PResbyterian pastor in his hometown of Philadelphia. The Unitarians kept making inroads until they took over Congregationalist Harvard and later Yale. I believe this "softened" up the country to the liberal Protestant take over of the very same main line denominations that "danced around with" the Unitarians.

Today, the liberal Protestants have softened up the country for the emergent, which is a synthesis religion of parts of Christianity with ma ny other religions. It's certainly good to constantly question what today is erroneously called "fundamental" Christianity, but there is a line we dare not cross--that which is too far away from the events of the cross and resurrection.