You know that moviemaking trick, I dunno what it's called but you stack two kinds of lenses and zoom in with one while zooming out with the other, so the focal subject stays in one place and the background seems to move?
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"Churches are bad, we need more Masonic Lodges" is my favorite hot take right now
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Good dunk, but I'm saying that churches are the surviving remnant -- partly because they're explicitly protected under the constitution -- of a much richer set of institutions that died out. Pre-Roosevelt labor unions would be another example.
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Agreed. I would add only that faith has value as Meaning; yet Meaning is not limited to faith, but may be found in family, town, nation, intellectual pursuit, etc. When faith withers, nation is reviled, birth rate plunges, and science is beyond the reach of most, what have we?
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The great drives of the present are for material comfort and social recognition, always valuable but rarely if ever the acknowledged end goal of life before. Our horizons sink lower, even as the complexity of global life makes even these meager goals seem far beyond our power.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.