7. So a coffee house is 1) cheap 2) place you can sit and talk 3) non-alcoholic
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8. Lots of interesting alternative explanations in my TL, which I've been re-tweeting.
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9. But aside from all these interestingexplanations, isn't there also something in nature of religion itself connected with public dining.
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10. It's a modern, Protestant-inflected notion that religion is an internal, private thing. But most religions are social, communal, shared
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11. Primordial religious experiences are the shared meal (which is why dietary restrictions so key to many religions in marking boundaries)
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12. Shabbat, Mass, Iftar, Langar, etc. -- all different of course but all examples of how shared consumption is integral to religion.
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13. In any case, talking about God over coffee is an interesting cross-denominational (and cross faith) ad hoc ritual.
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14. I'm tempted to revise Marx & say religion isn't the opium of the masses but the coffee of the masses.
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15. Beyond the religious stuff, coffee houses interesting as rare modern public space of relaxed sociability. Need more such spaces!
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@gdnickel Good points
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