1 thought on “US RELIGIOUS ZEITGEIST: “A Devastating Fact for Religion in America” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮”

1. Interesting and he’s right that, despite the blustering on the GOP presidential nomination carnival circuit, we are seeing a societal transformation that cannot happen soon enough. Also I would wager the numbers are even less favorable to religion were it not that people notoriously lie to survey takers about questions related to religion.

   But here’s the problem and its a complex one. What complicates all matters surrounding religion is that it is so amorphouse and malleable and unstable a word that it does little to explain what is really happening when people either use it as a “value” or condemn it as a source of evil.

   For example, the judgmental, absolutist, compassionless values being advanced by white conservatives as “religious” values, are only weakly tied to their religion; they are really social and cultural values, based in bigotry and ignorance, but said, usually wrongly, to be warranted by their religion. These folks keep saying their “values” arise from their religious doctrines when, in fact, few can point to any absolutes — on any moral question — that emanates from their religion. If they were honest they would also have to concede that their scriptures and teachings can also dispute their moral position. Scripture can condone killing, genocide, infanticide, incest, rape, suicide, and war– as well as condemn the same exact moral actions.

   Whether you’re talking about religion or secular matters, it’s all smoke and mirrors. There’s no “good” and there’s no “evil”, there’s only an inconvenient truth–that’s there’s only and always an agenda.

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