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Originally Posted by Botnst
....There is no doubt that the secular order and the search for meaning coexisted quite happily when Christianity provided its benign support to both. But (especially in Europe) Christianity has retreated from public life and is now being driven from private life as well.
For people of my generation, it seemed, for a while, as though we could rediscover meaning through culture. ....But we reckoned without two all-important facts: first, the second law of thermodynamics, which tells us that without an injection of energy, all order decays;
and second, the rise of what I call the “culture of repudiation,” as those appointed to inject that energy have become increasingly fatigued with the task and have eventually jettisoned the cultural baggage under whose weight they staggered.
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Benign? Hardly. More people have died in the name of christ, than can be counted.
Operative words of that statement - 'my generation'. Many of that generation regard modern culture as 'unworthy', when, in fact, it is just different. There are plenty of 'injections of energy', but you can't look for them in 'all the same places' or among 'the usual suspects'
'jettisoned the cultural baggage' - sounds like a good idea.
Roger makes a few good points, but a return to religion as a basic part of society is a step backwards. Everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs, but keep them out of my government