the previous post ended with this observation:

There seems to be something in this that leads to another “theological” observation about Churches. That is, how often do churches resort to a “package deal” to appeal to a larger audience, and end up “dumbing down” the gospel (or worse, selling out for a more “palatable” Christianity.

The Religious Right has probably done the “best job” at this (but that casts the strategy in too positive a light, as this is a result of “appealing to a wider audience”). They have succeeded, in the most part, in “packaging” an “easy to use” faith which people can flash (like an ID badge) at any number of a range of issues and life choices (and also manages to ignore many issues in life , like, what to do about all these “other cultures” — they’re evil, backward, or something that allows us to dismiss them; not care about their status in the eyes of God who values all of humanity and EVERY human culture for the sake of those humans who live in them.