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(I thought this was an interesting article so decided to post it ... I am not a religious person, never have been. I've used mediation and to me that's far more beneficial. The article touches on many things I've thought about, basically, how obsolete IMO traditional religion is ...)
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"Huge shifts are occurring all over the world. Its as if a new awareness is in its beginning birth pangs. People who have been repressed and treated unfairly for years, generations, are suddenly and spontaneously rising up, rejecting the old, fighting for justice and truth regardless of personal safety. Its as if a new consciousness is being born.
This is happening in religious circles as well. For example, what comes to mind when you hear the word religion,' other than an immediate disgust prompted by visions of heated arguments between the 4,000 different warring sects now present in the world? Not much.
Religion historically has meant reverence for God or the gods, careful pondering of divine things, religious devotion, law, fixed beliefs, repression, and bondage. But this will not be the new normal in America. The new generation of Americans are too fiercely independent, they are free thinkers. Our youth are running from the organized religions of their early childhoods like fleas off a wet dog."
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Warpy
(114,588 posts)They've been fighting to overturn the first one for 300 years.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)PassingFair
(22,448 posts)So, yes, we're due for another Enlightenment.
And it can't come too soon!
iris27
(1,951 posts)Historically, it's been far easier for most to modify their religion into a supposedly "kinder, gentler" form than to give it up altogether.
DavidDvorkin
(20,583 posts)I wish I could disagree, but I can't.