James, thanks for reading the post and for the comments. You're making a similar argument to something else I've read recently, but I can't remember where. The author was saying that Christianity has become a religion about Jesus, rather than of Jesus. There's a key difference in that. Richard Rohr has talked about it this way as well - the difference between belief and action. Lutherans have had a love struggle with the conflict between orthodoxy and orthopraxy. In the book, "The Lost Art of Scripture" the author claims that in the Enlightenment and Reformation, religion shifted primarily to a left brain activity - being about getting it right in terms of beliefs, rather than practicing the faith and encountering God, which are more right brain functions. We've been dealing with this for at least 500 years and have not made adequate corrections to bring things back into a better balance between left and right brain when it comes to faith.