The ultimate Jesus idol. Christianity as religion has deteriorated far beyond the social club and an opportunity to network. It now is seen as “Cheaper than Therapy”. Not surprising as much of mainline Christianity has watered down and even reversed the Word’s original meaning. One might even go as far to say they have promoted evil.
But that aside Christianity has become the quick fix Jesus idol. Something that costs less than therapy. While one can say that a changed and transformed mind does one wonders it only comes if one intends to know the Father and the Son. If you don’t want to know either then it’s just another meeting. You might be saying at least they are in church. The good and the bad of it won’t be known until one knows where they decided to go.
John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
NY Times: Still, you announced that it had inspired an article in the current issue of Marie Claire featuring accounts by “five modern career gals” of “how their belief in faith helped them through the hardest of struggles.”
The article is titled “Cheaper Than Therapy.”
The idea of faith as therapy, you probably know, is not exactly new. Fifty years ago, Norman Vincent Peale preached the power of positive thinking, and Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen insisted that the Roman Catholic confessional was more effective than the psychoanalyst’s couch. And the language of healing, both physical and psychological, is prominent in many religious traditions.
Still, you should anticipate the objection that promoting religion as bargain-basement therapy is something of a category mistake, like publishing someone’s account of voting under the banner “More Engrossing Than Sudoku” or trumpeting romance as “Juicier Than Fish Sticks” or describing the joys of cooking as “Faster Than Gardening.”