⁴⁴See Ken Myers, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians and Popular Culture (Westchester, Ill.: Crossway, 1989), 84–85, for a good summary of what is wrong with sentimentality: (1) Sentimental emotions are fleeting and not change-associated. (2) They are welcomed just for emotion’s sake, as a good in themselves, instead of as a due response to truth. (3) They thus always are taken with a grain of salt. Sentimentality creates deep cynicism. No one takes it very seriously.