the “spiritual but not religious person.” If they pray at all, they will pray their own prayers, which is to say, they are not being formed by prayer, they are only “expressing themselves.” They wish for what they want and call it prayer. It’s window shopping imagined as prayer. This is the prayer of the consumerist, the secularist, the spiritual individualist.
This relates to why I’m often so uncomfortable with prayer…it can’t be right to give god a wish list, even if it’s accompanied by praise and confession…
