Reply #35: One more '6' and the Revelations psychos would go over the top, but

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in Matthew 6:6 private contemplation is endorsed:

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"But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

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That passage doesn't seem to mention multi-million-dollar megachurches or braying like a jackass on television.

Rick Warren, to name names, wears the worst shirts in all Christendom, in the opinion of this observer. His dogma is even worse. The profit-driven life indeed.

If a woman or a man, Christian, Buddhist, or Other, decides that navigating the material world is best managed in a cloistered setting, I respect that calling. It isn't my experience but it's theirs.