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[Note:\u00a0<\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our\u00a0Brief Articles 1\u00a0<\/strong>page.]<\/span><\/p>\n A survey has found that many Americans now take a\u00a0mix-and-match, build-your-own approach<\/em>in religion. Loyalty to a denomination\u2014previously the norm\u2014no longer prevails. People are combining elements of \u201cChristianity\u201d with those of Eastern religions (e.g., yoga, reincarnation, mysticism, chanting), New Ageism (including astrology), and their own claimed religious or spiritual “experiences.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n One observer likened the phenomenon to personalizing a \u201cplaylist\u201d on an iPhone. One man surveyed, reared a Baptist, said he \u201cdabbled in Mormonism,\u201d liked Buddhism, and believed in astrology and assorted supernatural manifestations.<\/span><\/p>\n These findings cause considerable head-scratching by those who care any anything about Christianity as prophesied in the Old Testament and revealed in the New Testament (the only source document for Christianity). Such religionists must either be utterly ignorant of the most basic tenets of the religion of Christ, or knowing them, has reckoned them as inconsequential and thus optional. Their religion is humanistic, rooted in men who delight in their own wills rather than in the will of God. This syncretistic approach bears no resemblance to Christianity in any sense. Rather, it represents a denial and rejection of it.<\/span><\/p>\n The great push by modern aggressive atheists (e.g., Hitchens, Dawkins, et al.), cultural \u201csecularists\u201d (a fa\u00e7ade for Atheism and Humanism), the misnamed American Civil Liberty Union, and related groups, does not despise religion\u00a0in general<\/strong>. When was the last time anyone heard them blaspheme or litigate against Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, or other any other \u201cisms.\u201d They only oppose any and everything pertaining to\u00a0God\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jesus<\/strong>Christ<\/strong>as the\u00a0Bible\u00a0<\/strong>depicts and reveals Them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Their great hostility toward all things Bible-related proceeds from the Bible\u2019s\u00a0exclusive<\/strong>claims, well-summarized by its incomparable advocate, Paul the apostle: \u201cThere is one body, \u2026one Spirit, \u2026one hope,\u2026one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all\u2026\u201d (Eph. 4:4\u20136).<\/span><\/p>\n Such verbiage is hyper-offensive to God-deniers, for it excludes all other deities, lords, saviors, spirits, faiths, baptisms, and religious institutions besides those the Bible sets forth. It denies hope to those who deny its exclusive claims\u2014take it or leave it. The \u201cPolitical Correctness\u201d specter strikes fear into the hearts of and enslaves the masses. They recoil at anything the PC dictators label as \u201cnarrow\u201d or \u201cintolerant,\u201d which Jesus\u2019 way surely is. \u201cBlended religion\u201d bears no resemblance to Biblical religion. It represents man\u2019s self-exaltation and the dethronement of the true and living God and His only begotten Son. Jesus allows no competitors for Himself and tolerates no additional elements to His religion. All must decide: Shall I choose my way or God\u2019s way?<\/span><\/p>\n [Note:<\/strong>I wrote this article for and it appeared in the\u00a0Denton Record-Chronicle,\u00a0<\/em>Denton, TX, January 9, 2015.]<\/span><\/p>\n Attribution:<\/strong>From\u00a0TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Views: 0[Note:\u00a0This MS is available in larger font on our\u00a0Brief Articles 1\u00a0page.] A survey has found that many Americans now take a\u00a0mix-and-match, build-your-own approachin religion. Loyalty to a denomination\u2014previously the norm\u2014no longer prevails. People are combining elements of \u201cChristianity\u201d with those of Eastern religions (e.g.,…<\/p>\n