Lately I have become aware how easy it is to live a kind of double life. (I'm not thinking of political people here but of "religious" people.) This is connected with "piosity" which is a surface sort of religion but doesn't get beyond this surface. This allows people to be very devotional and live in a contradictory way. It's captured in the saying, "some people live one way on Sunday Morning and in a different way the rest of the time. There is a lack of "integrity" in this way of living.
Paulo Freire in his book, PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED tells us that perception or the recognition of our current situation is the beginning of transformation. In psychological terms we can live out of "ego" and not own it.
I believe that Sloppy Theology leads to sloppy counseling, to sloppy living on the surface and never going very deep.
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