Postmodernism and the message of Jesus

Here is something I must vent about to, short and sweet and very simple:

There is no way one can reconcile the message and call of Jesus Christ with any part of what is often called postmodernism. If you cannot see that, something is very wrong with the way you are thinking. You simply cannot lump "modernity" into one group as if all people who thought during the "time frame" thought the same way. During the "modern" time frame, many thoughtful Christian people came up with wonderful, well thought out, and balanced responses to the radical (some good, some bad) ideas developing at the time (Galieo's science...and such). We've had Sophists since before Plato. You may know what the word "sophist" means, but can you see how they made the same basic claims that postmodernists make today?

Now they were not perfect and made some mistakes, some of which we see today. But we don't just abandon what they had right, like Descartes' distinction of mind and body. Descartes was not really in the business of pushing the dogma: "we are two kinds of things." And some are sure IF he said that, he must be saying matter is an evil thing. Some my friends actually think this!! And I know for a fact they never read the man with an open mind! He made an important and very cogent set of insights into the nature of things! The two things he uncovers that we is a simple distinction, mind and body(extension). That is what is very important for us. Don't believe me. Read what he said and think through it. Don't just knee jerk. I did that when I was around 20....I thought Descartes was silly. Doubt as a philosophical method? "Silly"...I once said. Now, there is a truth in the limitations of doubt as a philosophical method. But, later, I read it....with an open mind and found there to be much of value in his meditations. I think any person who reads him with the same openness will see his powerful insights for what they are.