Reading a hundred quotes back to back
About kindness
And looking inside
And being a good person
And having hope for each new day
All sounds so nice and vaguely religious.
Actually it is the vague religion of today,
One that wants us all to be good
With the end goal of happiness and self-esteem,
And that God is somewhere else, but ready to grant our wishes:
Moralistic therapeutic deism.
Not as offensive as the bloody cross,
Not as joyful as walking by the Spirit.
Just plenty of platitudes along the lines of
To thine own self be true,
Without the wisdom to see that maybe
The self is the problem.
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