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”
The following is a quote by Tony Campolo in the Foreward 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. He is one of the …
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