Unless It's Value-Added, Religion's a Non-Starter These Days

By Russ Wellen - Freezerbox
Thursday, March 23, 2006

Worshippers are no longer content to take their religion straight anymore. They need a chaser. And that chaser is oppositional defiance.
Building a denomination or congregation today requires rallying it around the forces of evil -usually more imagined than real?

In America, congregations are pitted against other segments of America; the only religions where most of the worshippers commune with a higher power as opposed to raging against sinners are the activist and monastic branches of Christianity and the meditative traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam (Sufism).