Even in worship services, the goal for many is that people feel something. Schleiermacher, a German theologian of the 1800's, made this the essence of religion. Theology for him was nothing more than religious feelings made articulate. "Religion." he said, "is a feeling of absolute dependence."
Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small, p.82
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