“Most contemporary worship songs would be appropriate to sing to your girlfriend. Substitute ‘darling’ for ‘Jesus’ and the song still works. Try doing that with ‘Immortal, invisible, God only wise’. . . After a generation of singing such sentimental offerings to the Lord, He then becomes a girlfriend, at least in the minds of those who worship. But there is a vast difference between the omnipresent God who is everywhere present and a girlfriend who is ‘always there.’”
The Cultural Mind, pp. 195-196