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A poll sheds light on a
paradox of increased religiosity and decreased morality
according to
sociologist Robert Bellah. His conclusion: 81 percent of the American people say
an individual should arrive at his or her own religious belief independent of
any church or synagogue." Thus the key to the paradox is that those who
claim to be Christians are arriving at faith on their own terms -- terms that
make no demands on behavior. A woman named Sheila
interviewed for Bellah's Habits of the Heart
embodies this attitude: "I believe in God
" she said. "I can't
remember the last time I went to church. But my faith has carried me a long
way. It's 'Sheila-ism.' Just my own little voice."
Charles Colson
Against the Night
p. 98
Rabbi Zusya years ago
said
"In the world to come I will not be asked
'Why were you not
Moses?' I will be asked
'Why were you not Zusya?'" The problem is
how to be the person we were meant to be.
B. Larsen
Luke
p.
42.