At the heart of the decline of religion is the abandonment by the churches of the dream of bringing about God's kingdom on earth. That more than the irrationality of various pieces of dogma is bringing down the pastors. All the churches embraced capitalism and profited in terms of property values, shares and political influence. They are now paying for serving Mammon. The spectacle of the pastors bowed in prayer around Trump is as powerful an image of their politics, a anyone cold wish for. All it needed was Moses to pop in and scream something about the ēggel hazāhāv.
comradely Gary On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:19 AM Dennis Brasky <[email protected]> wrote: > Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other > nation, according to a forthcoming research book. > > Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing It and What Comes Next, by > University of Michigan scholar Ronald Inglehart, is to be released in > January by Oxford University Press. Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine – > in an advance summary titled “Giving Up on God: The Global Decline of > Religion” – Dr. Inglehart said: > > “The most dramatic shift away from religion has taken place among the > American public. From 1981 to 2007, the United States ranked as one of the > world’s more religious countries, with religiosity levels changing very > little. Since then, the United States has shown the largest move away from > religion of any country for which we have data.” > > https://www.juancole.com/2020/09/americans-abandoning-religion.html > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1532): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1532 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76828292/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
