But it\u2019s striking that the things that therapeutic, God Within religion doesn\u2019t seem to have delivered to Americans are the very things that it claims to be best suited to provide\u2013contentment, happiness, well-being, and, above all, the ability to forge successful relationships with fellow human beings. \u2026Therapeutic religion promises contentment, but in many cases it seems to deliver a sort of isolation that\u2019s at once comfortable and terrible\u2013leaving us alone with the universe, alone with the God Within.<\/b>
\u2013Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics<\/i><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
But it\u2019s striking that the things that therapeutic, God Within religion doesn\u2019t seem to have delivered to Americans are the very things that it claims to be best suited to provide\u2013contentment, happiness, well-being, and, above all, the ability to forge successful relationships with fellow human beings. \u2026Therapeutic religion promises contentment, but in many cases it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n