Collect all 14 Stations of the Cross and win redemptive suffering

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He was betrayed, tortured, humiliated, and killed and rose from the grave to save us. He gave us Communion and said: do this in remembrance of me.

Let’s buy movie tie-ins instead! (Reuters story here)

If I could sum up the American religion in one phrase it would be this:

Products are prayer.

Comments

I suppose it was inevitable

[darkuncle.livejournal.com]

we've spent thousands of years trying desperately to avoid having to have direct contact with God - use a prophet, a priest, a king, a pope, a movie, a book, a study group leader, a pastor, a group of educated leaders ... ANYTHING to offer a layer of abstraction to protect us from the awful, crushing nakedness that a direct relationship with Him brings.

"God is in heaven, and you are on earth, so let your words be few." Guilty as charged.