Quote for the day

Indian theologian Vinoth Ramachandra says:

The Good News is packaged and marketed (using, uncritical, all the techniques of modern advertising) as religious product: offering "pearce of mind", "how to get to heaven", "health and prosperity", "inner healing", "the answer to all your problems" etc. What is promoted as "faith in God" often turns out to be a means for obtaining emotional security or material blessing in this life and an insurance policy in the next. This kind of preaching leaves the status quo untouched. It does not raise fundamental and disturbing questions about the assumptions upon which people build their lives. It does not threaten the false gods in whose name the creation of God has been taken over; indeed it actually reinforces their hold on their worshipers. This kind of "gospel" is essentially escapist, the direct descendent of the pseudo-gospels of the false prophets of the Old Testament. It is simply a religious image of the secular consumerist culture in which modern men and women live.