RE: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
November 23, 2021 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: November 23, 2021 at 9:07 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Try Durkheim, Em.
A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
Gods - a figurative expression of society.
Obviously, that’s been Christian belief for the west for the last few centuries, and is commonly some sort of theism for many people in the world- but a definition of religion which excludes the entirety of religious beliefs beyond Christianity or theism is insufficient for anything beyond common use in the west- as exemplified in this thread.
Insomuch as religion in the uk is middle of the road- I’d call that the effect of liberalization in the context of beliefs about the divine which are fundamentally illiberal- such as a capitol g god.
A unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
Gods - a figurative expression of society.
Obviously, that’s been Christian belief for the west for the last few centuries, and is commonly some sort of theism for many people in the world- but a definition of religion which excludes the entirety of religious beliefs beyond Christianity or theism is insufficient for anything beyond common use in the west- as exemplified in this thread.
Insomuch as religion in the uk is middle of the road- I’d call that the effect of liberalization in the context of beliefs about the divine which are fundamentally illiberal- such as a capitol g god.
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