Religions can no longer make unchallenged assertions about reality so long as they do not seize secular power, provided they cannot coerce belief.
#DemonHauntedWorld page 272
#CarlSagan
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That’s not always true. The Episcopal church continuously challenges the Bible and supernatural. But it too has become very tribal and political. They consider being a Republican a moral issue.
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Indeed, religions are becoming more tribal and political as the man says (
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As an atheist I don't have a problem with God-speak lessening, but I am concerned about the concomitant decline in discussion about morality. You don't need morality to be Christian - evidence of that is everywhere - but you do need it to be a decent social person.
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The author reminds me of this free sample guy at my local Target last weekend. He asked me about my marriage and told me about an ex-fiance and then asked me what church I belong to. Just do your job. I wouldn't even have these conversations with a casual friend.
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"I’d try to rephrase those [religious terms] in ordinary vernacular, but I couldn’t seem to articulate their meanings." I was taught in elementary school "if you can't say it in your own simple words you don't understand it."
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Definitely not in India. We are still celebrating the ancient past aided by the pliant propagandist media.
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Interestingly (or disturbingly) the highest number of believers are in the corporate sector, especially in the IT sector.
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There's data in the other direction that populations are becoming more "mystical," even as they get less "religious." I'm a bit too lazy to pull the numbers at the moment, but claimed rates of direct, mystical experience are sharply up in the last few decades.
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its funny that Steve links this author to illustrate a point opposite to the one the pieces author intends. the author is bemoaning, Steve basking

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Even the pope said there’s no Hell.
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...But then blames the devil for intergenerational pederast-protecting in the Catholic church.
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Yet, in my own life, quite the opposite is true.
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Progress?
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While I don’t doubt religious language has declined everywhere, the regional aspect of this article is highly doubtful. I would need a lot of proof to believe that people in New York don’t know what the words “God” or “grace” mean. The author could be using them in an odd way.
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I have lived in New York State and the South and I can tell you the biggest difference is religious diversity. If you use terms in the same way as other people, they understand.
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If anything, being in a religious monoculture means you can use all the buzzwords without thinking about what they mean.
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