He presides over a country in which more people claim to have “no religion” than to be Catholic or evangelical Christian. Yet unlike European countries, America is not becoming clearly less devotional as its churches retreat. Even Americans who have abandoned churchgoing are likelier to say they pray and believe in God than German or British Christians.
Some have hailed the displacement of religious fervour into the secular realm as proof of the “God-shaped hole”. This is a conviction, attributed to Blaise Pascal, a French polymath of the mid-17th century, that the religious impulse can never be quelled. Human history suggests he was on to something. But it also suggests outbursts of religiosity owe as much to their cultural, especially institutional, context as metaphysics.
They were motivated far more by his immigration policies and racially infused law-and-order rhetoric than his judicial nominees. They have since shown little interest in Mr Biden’s faith. Or in his efforts to restore the civic religion—an age-old idea of America as a nation blessed by God and united in moral purpose—that Mr Trump disdained. Around a third of white evangelicals subscribe to the QAnon cult.
The situation on the left is roughly the opposite. The most avowedly secular Democrats—well-educated “woke” liberals—are also the likeliest to moralise. Their Puritanical racial and gender politics sit in a long tradition of progressive Utopianism, rooted in mainstream Protestantism. Barack Obama’s Messianic first presidential campaign was also in that vein. Yet these new Puritans of the left, though they are more secular than earlier progressives, are far more extreme.
In content, the religious have importance. But I have seen pastors and people on Christian podiums commit heterodoxy. They do not care because to them, it is the means to the end. Image is everything: they recognize it, sometimes.
OlugbengaBlacks Hardly. It’s not religious fervor but religious malignancy, and not of the both sides order. Centuries of an imposter imperialist cult worship, makes loving each other just another commandment to be broken, and falsely atoned for. Ditchreligion it creates unchristians.
Really? The most extreme example you can find of 'woke left' mercilessness is someone losing their high ranking job in the media for public racism? As if such positions are a white entitlement and not a privilege? While ignoring the improved environment for minorities?
Religions are an integral part of a majority of people on Earth. It gives them peace, guidance and hope.
Can we please keep religion out of anything involving serious thinking?
Heterodoxy is a word not used in S Carolina.
atheism
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So many bitcon traders on Twitter are trickster AMELIMARKD thank you for opening my eyes to their ways now I’m pretty sure I’ll be able to help others
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