“No comparison,” she replied. “Being with and eating with my family is a good human experience [mostly], but it is not religious. It’s just human. In meditation I have true religious experience.” A Christian needs to be both pagan and incarnational enough to dispute her answer. While not disputing the importance of private prayer and meditation (which most of us should do more of), what must be challenged here, if one is a Christian, is the theistic rather than incarnational perspective. The God who has become incarnate in human flesh is found, first and foremost, not in meditation and
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