Marginal Christianity

Forget the dream that education, scientific evidence or reason can help people make good decisions                          Marty Kaplan , Alternet                                Topics: AlterNet , Brain , Science , Anatomy , Psychology Enlarge (Credit: via Wikipedia) This article originally appeared on Alternet . Yale law school professor ...

  Brain research says our efforts to make church comfortable may backfire.  My six year old daughter is the most competitive personality in our home. While the other kindergarteners on her t-ball team are picking dandelions in the outfield, Lucy remains vigilant and “baseball ready” to make the play of the game. She recently came home from a summer backyard Bible camp disappointed. “The games were too easy,” she insisted. “They need to make it harder to win.” Lucy’s desire to be challenged reveals a fact often neglected in our culture--we only grow when we are uncomfortable, and too much comfort is not only be harmful but can be downright dangerous. For example, a recent FAA study found that pilots are losing critical flying skills because they are under-challenged by state-of-the art planes that virtually fly themselves. Ironically, the push for safety through computer flying is leading to more accidents as pilots “abdicate too much responsibility to automated systems....