I read this quote in a book I've been reading. It's an article from GQ magazine written by Walter Kirn. This man, a novelist and GQ's literary editor, decided to examine evangelical Christianity from the viewpoint of an outsider. He spent seven days doing nothing but Christian things, listening to Christian music, watching Christian movies, etc. This is what he said on the seventh day:

"[Evangelical Christianity] is mall Christianity. It's been malled. It's the upshot of some decision that to compete with them - to compete with 'N Sync and Friends and Stephen King and Matt and Katie and Abercrombie and Fitch and Jackie Chan and AOL and Sesame Street - the faithful should turn from their centuries-old tradition of fashioning transcendent art and literature and passionate folk forms such as gospel music...and instead head down to Tower or Blockbuster and check out what's selling, then try to rip it off, on a budget if possible and by employing artists who are either so devout or so plain desperate that they'll work for scale. What makes the stuff so half-assed, so thin, so weak and cumulatively so demoralizing...has nothing to do with faith. The problem is lack of faith."

I thought this was pretty interesting.