Gospel music phenom Kirk Franklin says that he wants faith without dogma. â??I feel that the pursuit of trying to know who God is, and trying to be known by God, can be lost in religion,â? he told NPR in a recent interview.
Franklin sees religion as â??manâ??s attempt to try to put a definition on something that is very hard to define.â? It â??can create so much of a dogma . . . that people donâ??t want to know God. They see God as someone with the big belt, thatâ??s gonna whoop you every time you do wrong.â?
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