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I would like to challenge the notion of the drop of religion being a recent phenomenon. In fact I would counter its been going on at least several centuries. Af
by dmarchand90 4y ago
I would like to challenge the notion of the drop of religion being a recent phenomenon. In fact I would counter its been going on at least several centuries. After all, Nietzsche was saying God is dead in the 19th century.
Even before this, the renaissance was a period filled with a turning away from religion and of reintegration of older classical stories and ideas. Descartes and Newton, though religious, introduced a fully mechanical model of the universe which has been growing in strength ever since.
Even in the meditations Marcus Aurelius carefully considers the idea of the universe consisting of nothing but atoms and their motions
- p5a0u9l 4y agoI find this a lazy, western-centric, summary of religion's decline. Nietzsche does not a consensus represent, however deep and insightful his statement. It is this kind of casual dismissal of faith that provides one of the fuels to the populist "God and country" crowd exploited by Trump and his ilk.
- dmarchand90 4y agoI'm not sure why you took this as an attack on religion. I was merely trying to provide counterexamples to the claim that the decline of religion's influence in western culture is not something that started out of nowhere in the 1960s.