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The Enneagram is widely used for spiritual growth. Saturday I'm going to spend a day with a liberal protestant church integrating the Enneagram with the scriptures.
You will notice that most Enneagram authors, while deeply, passionately at times, concerned with spirituality, do not use it in conjunction with "organized" religion.

Christian religion in the United States is "generally" not spiritual. It gives people something to belong to, some have virtuous outreaches and missionary work that combines social justice and proselytizing.

But there is very little healthy, mature religion. The sermons are largely moralistic, much of the religion in Christian book stores is the "gospel of gain" (sometimes called the prosperity gospel) like the prayer of Jabez. Much catholic piety is stickily sentimental, especially the writings about Mary.

The right-wing Christians are a vicious lot, by and large, at least as they show up in state and national politics. I'm not concerned with them. Of greater concern is the run of the mill church goers. They could really profit from the enneagram, but they really don't have a spiritual matrix that could assimilate the Enneagram.