Sermons are full of "fluff", empty words that make you feel good like an injection of heroin that induces a brief euphoria without truly revealing spiritual truths about yourself, about God, and about the world in general.
You walk out as ignorant of the truth as you were when you walked in, but with an emotional high that convinces you that things between God and you are "OK" and that all you need is to continue with your "regularly scheduled programming" because there is nothing basically wrong with you.
Churches are places where you go to have moments of intense "spiritual intimacy" with "God" and can somehow escape not only the reality of the world but also the reality of your own spiritual condition. As the attention of believers was drawn to fighting an imaginary outside enemy, the real enemy within was ignored, and he grew and grew.
Churches are places of dissipation where potentials are wasted away they are places where no spiritual growth is truly being produced.
If the church is charismatic injection is addictive but from other churches you go out even without the injection, just plain empty.
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