The book suggests that the defining problem driving out most people who leave is … just how American life works in the 21st century. Contemporary America simply isn’t set up to promote mutuality, care, or common life. Rather, it is designed to maximize individual accomplishment as defined by professional and financial success. Such a system leaves precious little time or energy for forms of community that don’t contribute to one’s own professional life or, as one ages, the professional prospects of one’s children. Workism reigns in America, and because of it, community in America, religious community included, is a math problem that doesn’t add up.
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Love the notion of giving a fuck about God exactly one hour a week and no other time
clock in and clock out
It's sometimes semi-ironically called "heaven insurance" by casual churchgoers, with the half-believed argument that if they suddenly die they're "covered" for their place in heaven for at least until next week.![galaxy-brain galaxy-brain](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fa05d4fe-f163-40e0-a03d-912cd48096ad.png)
Straight to hell![elmofire elmofire](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/79bd6345-4476-4225-a68c-e5f83dc2f44f.gif)
I seriously hope there’s eternal damnation that disagree with me
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Don't forget the Bible studies right after work, you should really attend... You do love God, don't you?
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"Mom, I don't have to go to church because the Kingdom of God is Within Me. Have you read any Tolstoy at all?? Jeeze."