If you're the parent of a Christian teenager, Kenda Creasy Dean has this warning: Your child is following a "mutant" form of Christianity, and you may be responsible.
Dean
says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls "moralistic
therapeutic deism." Translation: It's a watered-down faith that portrays
God as a "divine therapist" whose chief goal is to boost people's
self-esteem.
Dean is a minister, a professor at Princeton
Theological Seminary and the author of "Almost Christian," a new book
that argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on
this self-serving strain of Christianity.
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