The most famous branch of the programme involved a promo package entitled God Save The Kinks.
Stars were packaged like gods and goddesses, super-beings who were not only above, but simply different from the rest of us mortals.
To elevate one's thinking to a metaphysics or to apotheosize one's culturally conditioned understanding of Catholic orthodoxy as some abstracted totally packaged revelatory gift from God above is problematic and misleading.
In the fast food version of Christianity, God is packaged in accessible three step programs, delivered in different ways: skits, sermons, Bible Studies, movies, songs, and dance, but the goal is always to serve up the same, bland, sanitized spiritual food.
"That's God's stimulus package for you".
There's a lot of gimmicky packaging, like the "Wrath of God" series, which seems bent on documenting every natural disaster that has ever taken place.
I'm sure there are many others who are as outraged as I am after reading "For Coach, God and Archery Are a Package Deal" (Aug. 20).
If religion were God's UPS, delivering a package of moral laws to humanity, you'd expect a single, consistent set.
We were made morally comfortable by giving up such seeking and defining of "God" in exchange for a packaged, easier-to-follow arrangement.
The pioneer spirit suffused a 90-minute program staged by Ken Pagano, the pastor of the Assembly of God church, for whom God, guns and America are a package deal.
