There's been a tendency in modernist circles to do just that for decades. In fact, I think that's what modernism is all about ... deny the supernatural, deny the Divine, just try to make everything happy, warm and fuzzy. It's nauseating.
What is shocking to me isn't that this is happening, but that it is happening everywhere. It isn't just a "fringe" movement or limited to the nuts and fruits of Christianity, but in every Church, Synod, and Confession you can see the same pull for Christianity lite. I am not a Roman Catholic, and you are not a Lutheran, but on a great many things we do agree. What is shocking today, is that those very things we DO agree (the Incarnation, the Cross, Salvation, etc) have become what many are trying hard to jettison.