The value of cynicism

This post is from the defunct blog "Dying Church"

Found through Mike Todd, a statement from an interview with Pete Rollins:

Be cynical. The original cynics where a dusty group of people who questioned ethics not because they hated ethics but because they loved ethics so much. They questioned God and religion not because they where sceptical but because they where obsessed with God and religion. Questioning God is not questioning God, but only questioning 'God' - in other words our understanding of God. In the same way that Marxism helped liberation theology to find a voice so deconstruction (which is very cynical) will help revolutionise Western Christianity.

Comments

[Steve]

Around here, we value cynicism as part of what it means to be Canadian. But I've got to say that I am quite cynical of cynicism in general.