"Facts" and Christianity

Is there a common thread in these posts? Not deliberately. But in looking at them, I am concerned that perhaps there is. Perhaps it is something that bothers us that we can't verbalize until, at last we see it clearly. I wonder if many churches (I'm sure not all churches) are so afraid to "offend" people that they come to think purveying knowledge is unimportant -- that feelings and behavior are somehow all that matter –- that the practical implications of what God has said are unimportant – first because they might offend church members, and then, because the church members seem to be okay, since the implications do not seem to matter to them either. Today, Christianity seems to be put in a little emotional/behavioral box that exists quite independently of everyday reality, hard-nosed fact, and intellectual engagement. Yet if we cannot deal with the facts, how can we possibly know that Christianity is itself a fact? Is this anything less than the spirit of neo-orthodoxy?

Todd