Moralistic Therapeutic Deism--the New American Religion

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• CyranoRox

  Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:36 pm : 5 : 10 Flag

  This is a very worthwhile article, and describes a phenomenon I too have seen among the young. I take it that the teens interviewed were all Protestants, and exposed to doctrines such as subtitutionary atonement, justification by faith, total depravity of the will , and the like.
  Dare I say, as irenically as I can, that this quiet revolt from these innovative and erroneous ideas, arises from a noble motive? I agree that they have adopted a dilute and unnourishing religious view. But, and I speak as a convert from the completely secular to the Christian Church of old, they are leaving stones behind for this milk and water.
  What I hear from the best of the youth is this: were God the person, had God the intentions, displayed in the doctrines you allude to and no doubt hold, a man does better to reject him [whatever the cost] than to worship such an being.

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