NCE writes:
Yeah, classical stuff that continues to still happen to people despite participation in major religions declining.
You say you have a science training and used to be rational. Has all that gone out of the window with this born-again stuff?
It will always happen as long as there's mental illness but it will always be a minority inside a minority. It's not a material effect compared to a general decline. A decline in organised religion coinciding with an increase in atheism should tell you all you need to know. Scandanavians are not just not attending churches, they're dropping religion, both public and private.
It's happening in secular societies too - people just aren't communing in person that much these days anymore.
This seems to be thing with you. I don't share it. People are using social media AND communing in person.
it's to our own detriment - social media is just too shallow to replace good ol' fashioned community. People will start to figure it out and then they'll come together again. It may or may not have anything to do with religion, but religion is a good way to bring people together so I wouldn't be surprised.
People still live in, and participate in communities, they haven't gone away. Religious communities disapear with religion - this isn't an assertion, it's what happens.
But your whole dying out and going away mantra is misguided, imho.
It's happening. Don't deny reality - it always ends badly.
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