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America Is Too Religious
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Feb 02, 2007 12:16pm |
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Category | Opinion |
News Date | Thursday, February 1, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | OPINION By REV. BARRY LYNN
As a minister, I certainly don't think people in the United States are too religious.
However, as someone who takes spirituality seriously, I do think that the fact that religion has tastelessly been overpoliticized, oversubsidized and overcommercialized is "damnable" and in my opinion there is certainly too much of that in America.
Let's use Christianity, at the moment the most statistically robust religion in America, as an example. I suspect that Jesus would be astonished by what Americans do in his name.
Dec. 25, the day Christians celebrate the birth of Christ, has been overrun with tacky plastic Nativity scenes, "blowout" sales and playthings like Elmo and Wii. In one poll this year more respondents indicated they wanted to see a creche at City Hall than said they actually planned to attend services at Christmas.
That's tacky as well.
Religion has been wrenched from the personal and prophetic to the partisan and political. Once thought too sacred to spoil with politics, religious belief has become a de facto requirement for public office. |
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