The following is two excerpts from Christan Smith's paper, "On 'Moralistic Therapeutic Deism' as U.S. Teenagers’ Actual, Tacit, De Facto Religious Faith, " based on the research of sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton. I think one could read his paper and recognize that the bigger challenge for Christianity is not Secularism or other faiths, …
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Homer Simpson, Folk Christianity and “Religio-Magic”
Homer Simpson (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The following is a quote by Tony Campolo in the foreword he wrote for the book "The Gospel According to The Simpsons: The Spiritual Life of the Word's Most Animated Family" by Mark I. Pinsky (Westminster John Knox Press, 2001). In Homer, we find still another form of Protestant Christianity. …
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