Religious Thought vs. Religious Propaganda

In order to continue the very good conversations that we were having in class today, I wanted to open up a blog discussion on this topic. Robinson says, "In our strange cultural moment it is necessary to make a distinction between religious propaganda and religious thought, the second of these being an attempt to do some sort of justice to the rich difficulties present in the tradition." Please post any thoughts that you had during class and weren't able to say. As you do, and as this conversation takes shape, in might be worth looking at the second part of Robinson's sentence, where she refers to religious thought as "an attempt to do some sort of justice to the rich difficulties present in the tradition." Today, in class we talked about some of those difficulties. How would religious thought treat these better than religious propaganda and why? What would religious propaganda looked like that did not deal with these difficulties in a just way? Is that a problem?