I'm mildly obsessed with the question of whether the decline of organized religion has ironically pushed religious thinking into every other nook and cranny of "secular" life
nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opi…
No surprise that @DouthatNYT has smart things to say on it
nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opi…
No surprise that @DouthatNYT has smart things to say on it
To the extent that there's a sort of god gene that must do *some* work for secular ppl, I buy the case that organized religion has partly dissolved into:
1. non-organized spirituality (wellness, meditation, astrology)
2. quasi-religious political movements (you know the type)
1. non-organized spirituality (wellness, meditation, astrology)
2. quasi-religious political movements (you know the type)
(Don't take "god gene" literally. That's I'm-running-out-of-Twitter-characters shorthand for "assuming without evidence that even religiously unaffiliated groups have a sort of baseline level of non-rational spirituality, and that energy has to flow somewhere, where does it go?")
FWIW: I'm a secular reform Jew who meditates inconsistently, despises wellness gurus, and tries to avoid cultish politics. My god-gene energies flow exclusively into obsessing over which socks are the lucky ones. It's a private religion devoted exclusively to animist sock gods.
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