A prominent Christian apologist believes that mass media has made Americans vulnerable to mass-marketed spiritual ideas, like those pushed by Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra.
Dr. Ravi Zacharias, who details this in his new book , Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth In An Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality, said that Americans have been made susceptible to the allures of spiritual ideas because of mass media.
In an interview with CP, Zacharias said that television has "built in it the capacity of god-makers." "The vaster the audience, the more vulnerable the people watching the media," said Zacharias, who notes "how weak the human mind is" when dealing with mass media.
In Why Jesus?, Zacharias points to the examples of Oprah and Chopra as people who have become very influential due to American media, and who advance new age ideas on spirituality. Keep reading
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