123: A Study of Immature Versus Maturing Spirituality
Latter Day Struggles
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The Immature Spirituality of Big Religion
Hollis talks about the two forms of early stage religion and what they tend to look like. He says one branch infantilizes its flock by making them feel guilty, reminding them how they fail to measure up to impossible standards of moral perfection. The other is slick types who tell people what they most want to hear that you can have your wishes granted by right conduct,. While this hubristic opportunist quid pro quo was blasted to smithereens millennia agoby the wisdom of the Ecclesiastes and Job. What sells better today than wish fulfillment and modern materialism, hedonism and narcissism? This theology is disguised boosterism, motivational pitching and ratifies greed
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