The "I Hate Religion but Love Jesus" Guy Answers 5 Tough Questions
ChurchLeaders.com: Can you clarify your definition of religion?
Jeff Bethke: I would love to. Essentially I come from a Mars Hill context, because that’s my home church. I didn’t realize this, but outside Mars Hill religion means different things to other people, but inside Mars Hill the word “religion” is pretty much synonymous with hypocrisy, legalism, self righteousness, and self justification. That was really the heart of my definition of that word. If you went through the entire poem and replaced the word religion with either legalism or self righteousness orhypocrisy it would have not changed my intention or the heart of that poem whatsoever. To me those words are interchangeable.
As a fellow member, I can say that this is true. I think it might be better if we started saying “Relgiosity” instead of “Religion” though.
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