The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.
It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
If you have a film that's talking about God, you would think that it would appeal to people that consider themselves religious, whatever denomination they're attached to.
We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.
I grew up around a lot of church musicians.
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
My audience is God.