Atheist Pastor: the Future of Religion is Much Too Bright

[MisterP]

3. that's the problem with "stadialism": if Comte and Tylor predicted it but it didn't come true,

then it means not that the theory was wrong, but that someTHING has thwarted the great advent of technology and reason and human fulfillment

the talk of good-luck charms and of throwbacks to the last evolutionary stage and of savage, childlike primitives is firmly pre-World War I: of course like DWS they think that was eternal and unquestionable, and the century of anthropology, history, philosophy, and theology that followed has just been an epiphenomenon, some PoMo fluff

now, they've been predicting the imminent end of religiosity a decade or two away since the 1870s, but others have adapted with faithless churches and wedding ceremonies and summer camps (all derived from a very intriguing Victorian movement)