(April 19, 2021 at 9:24 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's probably not so much that people are leaving religions because they're beginning to think critically as it is that the religions no longer provide the services for which they were envisioned and upon which their cultural authority was premised.
The tradition solution to “religions no longer provide the services for which they were envisioned and upon which their cultural authority was premised” was religion shopping, schisms and formations of new religion.
The fact that modern world sees substantially greater portion of people going a totally different way from those traditional solutions is IMHO to a large degree attributable to the scientific revolution and prevalence of examples of efficacy of critical thinking.
