Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Has Culture bested Religion in America?
Alan Wolfe has a take on this, and believes that religion, specifically Christianity in many of his examples, has been molded by the cultural state of our country.
The question to ask, is "the populist quality of our culture, its short attention span, and its anti-intellectualism" improving our religion, or really much of anything else?
I think not. People should start to care about the world they live in and use their heads from time to time. The way in which someone can align with a group and not consider what such alignment means (like a political party's platform or the history and doctrine of a church) reflects how little thinking actually occurs in the average person's head.
The question to ask, is "the populist quality of our culture, its short attention span, and its anti-intellectualism" improving our religion, or really much of anything else?
I think not. People should start to care about the world they live in and use their heads from time to time. The way in which someone can align with a group and not consider what such alignment means (like a political party's platform or the history and doctrine of a church) reflects how little thinking actually occurs in the average person's head.
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