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equire repentance, does not judge sin, and does not makemen feel guilty for what they do.In that same interview, Young said that a woman wrote tohim and said that her 22-year-old daughter came to her aerreading the book and asked, “IS IT ALRIGHT IF I DIVORCETHE OLD GOD AND MARRY THE NEW ONE?”is is precisely what a very large portion of theContemporary Christian Music crowd is doing.Young admits that the God of “e Shack” is different fromthe traditional God of Bible-believing Christianity andblasphemously says that the God who “watches from adistance and judges sin” is “a Christianized version of Zeus.”is reminds me of the modernist G. Bromley Oxnam, whocalled the God of the Old Testament “a dirty bully” in his1944 book Preaching in a Revolutionary Age.Young depicts the triune God as a young Asian womannamed “Sarayu” * (supposedly the Holy Spirit), an orientalcarpenter who loves to have a good time (supposedly Jesus),and an older black woman named “Elousia” (supposedly Godthe Father). God the Father is also depicted as a guy with aponytail and a goatee. (* e name “Sarayu” is from theHindu scriptures and represents a mythical river in India onthe shores of which the Hindu god Rama was born.)Young’s god is the god of the emerging church. He is cool,loves rock & roll, is non-judgmental, does not exercise wrathtoward sin, does not send unbelievers to an eternal fiery hell,does not require repentance and the new birth, puts noobligations on people. (See “e Shack’s Cool God” at theWay of Life web site, www.wayoflife.org.)e false CCM non-judgmental, universalistic god isrepresented by emerging church leaders such as BrianMcLaren and Rob Bell, both of whom are very popular withCCM artists. One Christian rocker told us that these writings“resonate” with him.99