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    It is not the case that Contemporary Christianity deadens rather than activates the spirit

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    • 1.Contemporary Christianity has made Jesus — originally the friend of man — into an oppressor of man
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    • 2.Contemporary Christianity functions as an 'Eastern monarchy' that subordinates individual spiritual life to institutional authority
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Kierkegaard observed that Christendom replaces the radical personal risk of genuine faith with comfortable social conformity.
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    • 2.When religion becomes a civic institution, its transformative existential demand is absorbed into mere cultural membership.
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    • 3.Emerson's 'Divinity School Address' demonstrates that doctrinal repetition substitutes inherited formulae for living moral perception.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.William James argued in 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' that institutional religion systematically privileges secondhand belief over firsthand spiritual encounter.
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    • 2.Liturgical repetition and creedal enforcement produce what Hegel called 'positive religion': externally imposed rules displacing inner moral freedom.
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