Fooling the Almighty: Faking the Faith

There are people out there who are effectively covert atheists– church going individuals who say all the right things, bow at the right time, close their eyes and murmer silient prayers quite well– who nonetheless do not believe in God (they just don’t admit it). However, I think there is another kind of “atheist” in the ranks of the faithful far more numerous. I mean people who think they believe in GOd and the precepts of their religion but who see GOd and their religion as a kind of self focused, narcissistic image where God neither challanges nor chastizes but is instead a wish granter whom they would never imagine would do something so rude as to inconvenience them.

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