Herescope offers a rather unique body of research on skullduggery in evangelicalism. Their latest article draws interesting connections between Emergence and the New World Order.
People deceive themselves in amazing ways. Self-deception is amazing because it is entirely self-assured. It’s a form of abstract faith. One would have to be captive to some “tribal” authority (church body, political party, union, PAC, etc.) to miss the ideological threads running through our American institutions. The great multitude of our dis-educated populace seem to be blind to the spiritual and philosophical forces behind our politics and economics.
Emergence is deeply rooted in the same anti-Christ mentality that Marxism and Theosophy share. It’s the same mentality that produced death and destruction on a massive scale in the last century. That mentality in a word is Utopianism.