Today, we are going to explore a cousin of expressive individualism called therapeutic deism. This refers to a religious worldview in which God is a master therapist, helping us feel happy about ourselves and our lives. In this worldview, love is incompatible with moral judgment, and for this reason, moral judgment is treated as a failure to love. Therapeutic deism can be contrasted with divine love as described in the scriptures: God c...
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