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That old time relgion
> I recently asked Barrett what he has learned about religious change in his
> decades of working on the encyclopedia. “The main thing we've discovered,”
> he said, “is that there is enormous religious change going on across the
> world, all the time. It's massive, it's complex, and it's continual. We
> have identified nine thousand and nine hundred distinct and separate
> religions in the world, increasing by two or three new religions every day.
> What this means is that new religious movements are not just a curiosity,
> which is what people in the older denominations usually think they are.
> They are a very serious subject.”
>
Via InstaPundit.Com, [1] Oh, Gods! [2]
A very long, but very interesting, article on religion in our modern world.
Me? I find it fascinating that people feel compelled to believe in something;
there's a compulsion towards a spirituality that we humans seem to crave.
Spring, [3] for instance, found a comfort in the rituals and ceremonies of
Judaism even though she cares not one whit for the politics of Israel. My
best friend Hoade has become a Budhist. Even my Dad follows some Eastern
thought (and plays golf religiously but that's another thing … I think) and
he's about as cynical as you can get.
[1]
http://www.instapundit.com/
[2]
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/02/lester.htm
[3]
http://www.springdew.com/
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