But it's striking that the things that therapeutic, God Within religion doesn't seem to have delivered to Americans are the very things that it claims to be best suited to provide--contentment, happiness, well-being, and, above all, the ability to forge successful relationships with fellow human beings. ...Therapeutic religion promises contentment, but in many cases it seems to deliver a sort of isolation that's at once comfortable and terrible--leaving us alone with the universe, alone with the God Within.
--Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Showing posts with label and I will kneel in the big church. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
JEUX SANS FRONTIERES, OR THE PAST REPUBLICAN TICKET IN '80s VIDEOS: I don't think anyone can dispute that McCain/Palin was the "Games Without Frontiers"/"Big Time" ticket.
I think even Reagan might have cued up "Land of Confusion" instead.
I think even Reagan might have cued up "Land of Confusion" instead.
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