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Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough is unavailable, but you can change that!

Abandon dead, dry, religious rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved. Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation with a passionate, provocative poem titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." The 4-minute video became an overnight sensation, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). Bethke's message clearly...

one when they see one. The typical caricature is the person who wears suits, plays a pipe organ, and reads the Left Behind series in some cabin in the woods. He’s the guy on Larry King who makes me cringe when he’s the “Christian” voice on the show. He sounds mean, bigoted, hateful, and sometimes stupid. A fundamentalist tends to add rules to the Bible. Even though there are few to no credible passages—properly interpreted—in Scripture that call things such as alcohol and tattoos utterly sinful, some