High-decibel religiosity, with its excellent profit margins and growing political clout, is drowning out true religion all over the country
THE SERENITY PRAYER:
Faith and Politics in Times of
Peace and War.
By Elisabeth Sifton. Norton.
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=40020
SF & P Webb wrote:
three books reviewed
a nation of "switchers," hopping from denomination to denomination, seeking not God but a community that serves our "needs." Utility and aesthetics dominate American religion not just in the pews but in the pulpits, where blue-jeaned "inspirational speakers" preach prosperity on stages cleared of crosses and thump not the Bible but Bruce Wilkinson's bestselling ThePrayer of Jabez.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8168-2003Nov6.html
