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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:43 PM Jan 2012

The Religious New Normal in America Will Not Be Religious!

(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. It’s 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. It’s 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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The Religious New Normal in America Will Not Be Religious! (Original Post) RKP5637 Jan 2012 OP
A second Enlightenment is overdue Warpy Jan 2012 #1
Yep! I sure wouldn't want to set my watch by it ... lol RKP5637 Jan 2012 #2
They've had three "Great Awakenings" since then. PassingFair Jan 2012 #3
I'll believe it when I see it. iris27 Mar 2012 #4
I'm with you DavidDvorkin Mar 2012 #5

Warpy

(114,588 posts)
1. A second Enlightenment is overdue
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 11:49 PM
Jan 2012

They've been fighting to overturn the first one for 300 years.

PassingFair

(22,448 posts)
3. They've had three "Great Awakenings" since then.
Mon Jan 30, 2012, 10:52 AM
Jan 2012

So, yes, we're due for another Enlightenment.

And it can't come too soon!

iris27

(1,951 posts)
4. I'll believe it when I see it.
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 02:52 AM
Mar 2012

Historically, it's been far easier for most to modify their religion into a supposedly "kinder, gentler" form than to give it up altogether.

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