RE: The Religious Void
January 6, 2021 at 3:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2021 at 3:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The aim is to object to trends with non seqs, I guess. I can't help you there - but you can read all sorts of wonderful literature about the relationship between the religious and secular aspects of our lives and how our material circumstances compel a large number of us to predictable behaviors that influence the nature of our civic convictions and religious engagements. Not just in the present, ofc, but throughout all of history.
Let wonder lead you to knowledge.
-but a short answer to your question is this. Trumpism was flat out born in obama era churches, yes.
If you'd like to continue to explore religiosity in formal and political contexts, as you suggested, some clarity as to the items I asked you about would be enormously helpful. A formally or politically religious person can answer in the affirmative to every item - and would be expected to - because that's just the long form description of what it means to hold a political belief as a matter of religion.
I can kick it off to get you started. I have pseudo religious beliefs (the sacred-alike) that are disparate in content but identical in effect in the context of political positions and action.
I believe that life is pseudo-sacred, for example. Is my psuedo-faith compatible with my politics? Redundant, they're one in the same. Does my pseudo-faith agree with reality and with my politics..well, duh, easy one, we all believe this whether we're right or not, lol. Do I believe that laws which protect life are good laws and should be the law of the land? Why yes, yes I do. Howsabout my actions, do they reflect my beliefs and my reasons for them? Well..I'm a professional advocate for alt ag, so..imma go with yes.
I only break at the end, as noted in the beginning. I don't believe in the sacred. The pseudo sacred being an effective agent in my life is the only thing that makes the comparison valid. Other people are more or less invested in the inviolability of this or that, and more or less willing to make exceptions. How about you?
Let wonder lead you to knowledge.
-but a short answer to your question is this. Trumpism was flat out born in obama era churches, yes.
If you'd like to continue to explore religiosity in formal and political contexts, as you suggested, some clarity as to the items I asked you about would be enormously helpful. A formally or politically religious person can answer in the affirmative to every item - and would be expected to - because that's just the long form description of what it means to hold a political belief as a matter of religion.
I can kick it off to get you started. I have pseudo religious beliefs (the sacred-alike) that are disparate in content but identical in effect in the context of political positions and action.
I believe that life is pseudo-sacred, for example. Is my psuedo-faith compatible with my politics? Redundant, they're one in the same. Does my pseudo-faith agree with reality and with my politics..well, duh, easy one, we all believe this whether we're right or not, lol. Do I believe that laws which protect life are good laws and should be the law of the land? Why yes, yes I do. Howsabout my actions, do they reflect my beliefs and my reasons for them? Well..I'm a professional advocate for alt ag, so..imma go with yes.
I only break at the end, as noted in the beginning. I don't believe in the sacred. The pseudo sacred being an effective agent in my life is the only thing that makes the comparison valid. Other people are more or less invested in the inviolability of this or that, and more or less willing to make exceptions. How about you?
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