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Old 06-20-2007, 10:59 AM   #10 (permalink)
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I would say the same thing. The shift in the 60's and 70's towards more Eastern religions was very predictable. And Christianity always seems to lose power once it is transformed into the establishment and codified. There is a fine line between standardization and sterilization.
You can see similar movements throughout Christian church history. The rise of monasticism was very unsettling to the established church. St. Francis and his notions of poverty threatened the corporate enterprise.
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