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In this article (link), Frederick Meekins criticizes McLaren.  Now, once you get through the grammatical mistakes (in case, not encase…), you’ll find a simple argument: McLaren said “Da Vinci Code is no better than Left Behind: they’re both full of errors.”  After that McLaren also said that many churches have distorted views of Christianity because of Left Behind and they’re fighting for something that not all Christians would consider to be Christianity.  Because of this, the author argues that McLaren is a (nearly heretical) universalist based on what the author believes McLaren is lamenting in Left Behind: the warning against globalisation.  Now, i read the McLaren article being referenced here and found no such thing.  In fact, McLaren didn’t mention at all what his “beef” with Left Behind was.  As this author mentioned, Andrew Jones (Tall Skinny Kiwi) called this author’s critique of McLaren “the worst McLaren slam” and he’s shown again that his critique of McLaren is misguided.  This isn’t to say his belief that McLaren is a universalist is incorrect (i think i agree with him on that one), but his argument up to that point and from that point are off base.  So, for this week’s WTF? Award goes to Frederick Meekins for bad argument form.