[SmithL]

Another feel-good project for people that don't believe in anything.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

"...a 36-year-old motivational speaker and life coach..."

That description speaks volumes, doesn't it? Get a job, Wendy, you loooooooooooooooooooser!

[OneWingedShark]

I'm reminded of a saying I once heard from an elder at church: "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

[CholeraJoe]

I've never heard of her. Did I miss the memo?

[Sloth]

"There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness." Proverbs 30:12

[neocon]

If you can't find a religion that moves you, why not invent one?

For the same reason that if you don't happen to like the fact that 2+2=4, you really ought not to try to invent a "new" mathematics.

Theology, like any other legitimate human intellectual endeavor, is a search for truth. Inventing your own religion entails a tacit assumption that it's all just a matter of opinion.

In many ways, in recent times, we've moved past the usual commonplace irrationality into the realm of the delusional. It's as if people really believed that if they flapped their arms, they really could fly. I counter this nonsense by inviting such people to do the equivalent of giving such ideas a try off the Empire State Building. So far, oddly enough, there have been no takers.

[Lilllabettt]

This is a great spirituality.

Forget about the Christian obligation of loving neighbor as yourself. Where murder, genocide, rape, robbery, etc. are concerned, Wendy says:

I don't believe in right or wrong. It just is. If it feels like something that I should do, then I'll do it.

How does her spirituality address problems of senseless crime? War? So much for that silly the-sufferings-of-one-are-the-sufferings-of-all Body of Christ stuff. Wendy says:

I don't see how any of that is affecting me personally. I go on with my life.

Relativism is, despite all its claims of humanitarian tolerance, a basically selfish, depraved project.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I just read an article on the Internet by a man -- a very conservative Christian -- who said: "Don't do yoga, because that makes you meditate and that makes you take responsibility for your own life. It makes you start thinking for yourself." That's what intuition does, and that's why very conservative Christians are afraid of it.

I would have thought this an exaggerated, Christian-bashing caricature if there weren't a current FR thread with responses that sound exactly like it.