RE: The Religious Void
January 6, 2021 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2021 at 3:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 6, 2021 at 2:56 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:I'm not sure what the aim is here, to object to an observation about societal trends with a non sequitur? It's just how we've seen it happening, and when you look into how our religions proceed and what benefits they offer it becomes almost a deepity. OFC we ask for help when we're frustrated, and ofc we forget about the intercessory agent in good times. Ask your witchdoctor.(January 5, 2021 at 11:07 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: People turn to gods like yours when secular authorities fail to provide...and people turn away from gods like yours when secular authorities succeed.
Hmm if people ran to the church when the state fails, and to the state when the church fails, the separation of the two would occur naturally. But it doesn't.
These have been good political times for christians, so they've been out there doing alot of politicking and not a whole lot of what you or I might consider jesusing.
Quote:To amend my initial premise: People may have varying degrees of religious tendencies which tends to only be allocated towards a singule group rather than diffused across many groups. However, given this all-or-nothing tendency, the only way for a person to be religious towards Christianity and religious towards Politics, is if they combine Christianity and Politics into a single entity.Christianity is an inherently political belief system. Some ideologies have incidental political consequences - but christianity lays explicit claim to authority and the right life. That this will invariably put it at odds with a secular authority and their claims of a right life, will be an issue of competing internal imperatives for any given believer. As far as contemporary christians and syncretic beliefs - again, par. It's generally the case that people who believe that two things are true seek to explain this in a way that the one is compatible with the other.
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