The mixing of Euro-American culture with the gospel—from Plato to Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan—is considered permissible and orthodox. Brian McLaren sees counteractive syncretism, when used in typical ways by white Euro-American male theologians, as intended to attack the mixing of any cultural heritage (other than their own) with the gospel. For him the result “is the mixing of Platonic categories with the biblical witness (as the creeds exemplify—dependent as they are on terms like ‘homoousios’ and ‘hypostasis’) without claims of syncretism, but Native American stories and culture cannot”
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