ATD: Inconvenience == Religion

[Glenn Scheper]

which lightweight ATD correlation struck me while reading:

A culture obsessed with technology will come to value personal convenience above 
almost all else, and ours does. That has consequences we will explore. Among 
those consequences, however, is impatience with anything that interferes with 
personal convenience. Religion, morality, and law do that, which accounts for 
the tendency of modern religion to eschew proscriptions and commandments and 
turn to counseling and therapeutic sermons; of morality to be relativized; and 
of law, particularly criminal law, to become soft and uncertain. Religion tends 
to be strongest when lie is hard, and the same may be said of morality and law. 
A person whose main difficulty is not crop failure but video breakdown has less 
need of the consolations and promises of religion.

The
  -- http://www.cedarpark.org/CedarParkFtp/1997/GOMORRAH.HTM
  Cedar Park Church - “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”

A-and flying towards grace too!

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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