RE: Decline of religion
July 20, 2022 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2022 at 9:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It was aggressively marketed to females and teens. Think about that the next time some nutter complains that the satanists are coming after their daughters (if the migrants don't get them first!). For along while, it was dominated by female authors as a market, too. A single publishing house shaped much of contemporary paganism. Llwellyn.
Their editorial practices probably gave the movement the last bit of oomph it needed to compete with organized religions for the hearts and minds of people seeking alternatives to them, but it could have only been coincidentally, as they didn't set out to create any unified official or approved™ sense of paganism and the entire belief system stresses radical inclusion of wildly different beliefs - nearly all of which are available to atheists and theists alike - and in that movement those two groups do worship together. That's just how the cookies crumbled at barnes and noble.
Early adopters of contemporary feminism, lgbtq allieship..and an intense focus on and respect for the natural environment make it a religion almost (or..perhaps actually) test tubed for the current demographics of unaffiliated, undecideds, and nones in the us. It doesn't hurt that the demographics also overlap with relatively high levels of disposable cash.
Their editorial practices probably gave the movement the last bit of oomph it needed to compete with organized religions for the hearts and minds of people seeking alternatives to them, but it could have only been coincidentally, as they didn't set out to create any unified official or approved™ sense of paganism and the entire belief system stresses radical inclusion of wildly different beliefs - nearly all of which are available to atheists and theists alike - and in that movement those two groups do worship together. That's just how the cookies crumbled at barnes and noble.
Early adopters of contemporary feminism, lgbtq allieship..and an intense focus on and respect for the natural environment make it a religion almost (or..perhaps actually) test tubed for the current demographics of unaffiliated, undecideds, and nones in the us. It doesn't hurt that the demographics also overlap with relatively high levels of disposable cash.
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