The structure of the economy has changed fundamentally. And so the goals of these privately bankrolled institutions have changed with it.
Churches, as institutions, no longer aspire to maximize the number of middle class bodies in pews, because the middle class is no longer flush with surplus cash. Instead, they need to attract extraordinarily wealthy individual patrons to survive. To that end, church officials making a spectacle of casting out a single kid from a non-wealthy family for being “Woke” operates as a kind-of fundraising event for the patrician class.
Modern religious institutions don’t exist to tame and homogenize a frontier population’s moral code. They now serve to legitimize and promote high ranking officials as More Holy Than Thou. And as churches gain more roles of state government, its the public that has to ask special dispensation to join the church, not the other way around.
This catering to the rich and wealthy is exactly what caused the pilgrims to come to America (plus other things including the fact the pilgrims were religious extremists themselves). And now it is happening again.
This catering to the rich and wealthy is exactly what caused the pilgrims to come to America
Well, that and the 30 Years War, sure.
The cycle or Religious bullshit must continue-
The problem of lying is as ancient as the advent of human speech. Even if all formalized dogmatism vanished tomorrow, you’d still have people mistaking correlation for causation and developing superstitions and taboos as a result. Jordan B. Peterson is a great example of this in practice. In another time, he’d be a Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard figure.
But, at some level, any individual’s cache of information is going to be incomplete. We all rely on the grand game of telephone that is oral and written history. “The cycle of Religion” is just a facet of this cycle of generational retelling of accrued lore. How do you keep the logs accurate and the lorekeepers faithful to accumulated wisdom? Damned if I know. Double-entry book keeping seems to help, but its hardly foolproof.
The structure of the economy has changed fundamentally. And so the goals of these privately bankrolled institutions have changed with it.
Churches, as institutions, no longer aspire to maximize the number of middle class bodies in pews, because the middle class is no longer flush with surplus cash. Instead, they need to attract extraordinarily wealthy individual patrons to survive. To that end, church officials making a spectacle of casting out a single kid from a non-wealthy family for being “Woke” operates as a kind-of fundraising event for the patrician class.
Modern religious institutions don’t exist to tame and homogenize a frontier population’s moral code. They now serve to legitimize and promote high ranking officials as More Holy Than Thou. And as churches gain more roles of state government, its the public that has to ask special dispensation to join the church, not the other way around.
Just like how it was in the old days…
This catering to the rich and wealthy is exactly what caused the pilgrims to come to America (plus other things including the fact the pilgrims were religious extremists themselves). And now it is happening again.
The cycle or Religious bullshit must continue-
Well, that and the 30 Years War, sure.
The problem of lying is as ancient as the advent of human speech. Even if all formalized dogmatism vanished tomorrow, you’d still have people mistaking correlation for causation and developing superstitions and taboos as a result. Jordan B. Peterson is a great example of this in practice. In another time, he’d be a Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard figure.
But, at some level, any individual’s cache of information is going to be incomplete. We all rely on the grand game of telephone that is oral and written history. “The cycle of Religion” is just a facet of this cycle of generational retelling of accrued lore. How do you keep the logs accurate and the lorekeepers faithful to accumulated wisdom? Damned if I know. Double-entry book keeping seems to help, but its hardly foolproof.