Is progressive Christian edgelordery a thing, and if so what are examples of it?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'd argue that there's an at least mildly edgelordly cast to some of the more crypto-Marcionite kinds of progressive Christian rhetoric about the Old Testament, although that sort of thing was fortunately more common ten or fifteen years ago than it is now.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

"Amen and awomen"?

That's apparently a fairly common joke (if "joke" is the right word) in the black church so I don't think it counts.

Nadia Bolz-Weber is a great example, though, and I stay that as someone who's met her and liked her on a personal level.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Progressive Christianity seems to be based on virtue signaling.

The question then becomes whether virtue signaling can be edgy. I think it can.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I'd argue that there's an at least mildly edgelordly cast to some of the more crypto-Marcionite kinds of progressive Christian rhetoric about the Old Testament, although that sort of thing was fortunately more common ten or fifteen years ago than it is now.

I was only vaguely familiar with this when you posted it, and since then I got a book by Andy Stanley that I found to be possibly the worst popular theology ever. The Gospel Coalition has a decent article on it here. One of a handful of awkward moments where I found myself defending TGC.

Wait, this guy thinks rejecting the Old Testament as teh ev0l is a LESS antisemitic position on it than the orthodox one? lmao what a chump.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Wait, this guy thinks rejecting the Old Testament as teh ev0l is a LESS antisemitic position on it than the orthodox one? lmao what a chump.

Stanley is, for the record, among the country’s most prominent “pastors”. I think even pop Calvinists like Piper, MacArthur, and Keller have smaller followings.

I looked him up. He's MTG's pastor. That's genuinely hilarious.