John Blake of CNN asks, “Have you ‘walked the aisle’ to ‘pray the
prayer?’ Did you ever ‘name and claim’ something and, after getting it,
announce, ‘I’m highly blessed and favored?’ . . . If this is you, some
Christian pastors and scholars have some bad news: You may not know what you’re
talking about. They say that many contemporary Christians have become pious
parrots. They constantly repeat Christian phrases that they don’t understand or
distort.”[1] Making matters worse, such
Christians treat their religious beliefs as if they constitute knowledge. This,
as well as the presumed wherewithal to claim anything due from God, is highly
impious and yet the claimers are certain that
they have true belief.
The full essay is at "Religious Belief."