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Are You Really "Good"? The Hidden Trap of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism – Fr. Nick Stark – 06/26/2026
In this Friday Gospel reflection on Iowa Catholic Radio, Fr. Nick Stark offers a sharp, encouraging preview of Sunday's Gospel.
Key Highlights
Why "just be a good person" collapses without a common standard for what good actually means
How Jesus ties goodness directly to Himself: whoever loves father or mother more than Him is not worthy of Him, and whoever receives a prophet receives a prophet's reward
Moralistic therapeutic deism explained — the belief that we just need to be nice and that God exists mainly to make us happy — and why slogans like "love is love" sound comforting but stay…
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