When religion is transformed from a response of faith in the God of heaven into an instrument for getting things done on earth, it is disfigured. It may retain the accoutrements of true religion - ritual, liturgy, personal prayer, offerings - but its essential nature has been altered. It preserves “the form of godliness,” as the Apostle Paul put it, while “denying its power.”For as long as people have been religious - which is to say, for as along as there have [...]
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