One generation fights against that intolerance but in their youth leaves it all behind. Do they re-embrace religion later in life in a different form or flavor that is more tolerant? Do they reject it always and form new non-religious yet decidedly social groups and organizations that will still work together in activism?
Will their children embrace religion again more easily but simply expect it to be more tolerant and diverse? Or will these kids react completely against their parents and embrace further intolerance and hatred as a backlash?
The Millenials are starting to age. Twenty is now thirty and soon to be forty. It is the next generation that we are speculating about.
I think that over-all disillusionment with organized religion and authority has been around now since the Enlightenment. It waxes and wanes though as the history of religion and secularism in first the Colonies and then the United States has shown. Cycles are so apparent in American culture. The study and embracing of different approaches to healing and medicine began in the 1960's as a reaction and reached their peak by the late 1980's. In the 1990's the pendulum starting swinging back again, and now 20 years later, it is all thrown out as 'woo'. And yes, I hate that term as well but it is the current meme here at DU.
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