Spurious Things

According to Merriam Websters dictionary, spurious (rhymes with furious) means false or deceitful. And so, just in case anyone has ever wondered why Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries uses this word so often to describe spiritual formation (eg. SPURIOUS SPIRITUAL FORMATION USHERS IN DECEPTION), you should know that he is actually being very kind and gente by using this flowery word for such a stinking creeping thing. You see, the synonyms of spurious are quite nasty, and include words like artificial, assumed, bastard, bent, bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy, faked, false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe, mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, substitute, unauthentic, ungenuine, and unreal.

On the other hand, the antonyms of spurious are authentic, genuine, real, and true, all of which have absolutely nothing to do with the infiltration we are witnessing as contemplative mysticism slips and slides into the church...and that, dear reader, is the truth.