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False correlation. People realizing that belief in imaginary beings somewhere out there is false is a good thing. Any correlation at the same time of a rise in
by stjohnswarts 5y ago
False correlation. People realizing that belief in imaginary beings somewhere out there is false is a good thing. Any correlation at the same time of a rise in people becoming political or ideological zealots has nothing to do with the failure of religion in modern science based societies.
- plaidfuji 5y agoAgreed that weakening religious ideology is good, but disagree that it’s uncorrelated with changing politics. A large part of evangelical political backlash is explicitly rooted in the disappearance of religious symbolism and language from American public life. Exhibit A would be the absurd furor over Starbucks cups not saying “Merry Christmas”. The current intensifying political divide has a lot to do with devout Christians feeling insecure about their diminishing societal influence and the author manages to completely ignore that glaringly obvious fact. The interesting argument IMO is that current secular ideology seems to trend toward “ignore all religious holidays” or “remove all religious symbolism from society” when a perfectly rational and arguably more populist alternative would be to include and celebrate them all.