Comments on: Religion without religion, continued http://www.speedkill.org/2008/03/26/1958/ Radioactive Toy Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mark Tokarski http://www.speedkill.org/2008/03/26/1958/#comment-457277 Mark Tokarski Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:07:08 +0000 http://www.speedkill.org/2008/03/26/1958/#comment-457277 Religion satisfies our need for certainty and simplicity. Life ain't neither. I woudl like to know more about the numbers - the switchers. Has it been since 9/11? Have they been switching to the more fundamentalist varieties? Big events like that tend to drive people to extremes. But I'm just having a brain fart here. I got nothing. Religion satisfies our need for certainty and simplicity. Life ain’t neither. I woudl like to know more about the numbers - the switchers. Has it been since 9/11? Have they been switching to the more fundamentalist varieties? Big events like that tend to drive people to extremes.

But I’m just having a brain fart here. I got nothing.

]]> By: Lina http://www.speedkill.org/2008/03/26/1958/#comment-457140 Lina Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:48:50 +0000 http://www.speedkill.org/2008/03/26/1958/#comment-457140 Another view: Maybe those two groups -- unaffiliated believers and religion switchers -- represent two separate trends. I think a lot of people want the community but not (some of) the ridiculous bullshit, so they change religions in search of one more watered down. And then the unaffiliated are just as intellectually lazy as generations past (meaning just as inclined to believe without question), but now they're physically lazy too (and don't go to church). Vosper's project could very well thrive, thanks to the first group. Even I sorta found her ideas appealing. It's the more traditional, dogmatic churches that I think and are on the decline and will continue to be. Another view: Maybe those two groups — unaffiliated believers and religion switchers — represent two separate trends. I think a lot of people want the community but not (some of) the ridiculous bullshit, so they change religions in search of one more watered down. And then the unaffiliated are just as intellectually lazy as generations past (meaning just as inclined to believe without question), but now they’re physically lazy too (and don’t go to church). Vosper’s project could very well thrive, thanks to the first group. Even I sorta found her ideas appealing. It’s the more traditional, dogmatic churches that I think and are on the decline and will continue to be.

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