Interesting CNN article on how American teenagers are embracing “moralistic therapeutic deism.” Translation: a watered-down faith that portrays God as a “divine therapist” whose chief goal is to boost people’s self-esteem.

Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and the author of “Almost Christian,” argues that many parents and pastors are unwittingly passing on a self-serving strain of “mutant” Christianity.

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