There are many people today who have abandoned any kind of religious faith because they see clearly that the major religions are simply full of elder brothers.

who grew up in a Christian church and then walked away when they got older? Often pastors and parents and brothers and sisters are concerned about them and their spirituality—and often they should be. But sometimes those individuals’ rejection of church and the Christian faith they were presented with as the only possible interpretation of what it

behind. So congregations and their leaders would have to make reach their top focus (even their summum bonum, or highest good). They’d justify the focus on reach with language of evangelism and caring for the lost. Although, honestly, their fear was more likely induced by the alienation that the pastor and the congregation would feel without a grow

The historical cross of Christ, believed in as revelation and calling true faith into being, is the crux of the criticism of religion in Feuerbach and Freud. The cross, as the negation of everything which is religious in their sense, of all deifications, all assurances, all images and analogies and every established holy place which promises perman