ATD: Inconvenience == Religion

[rich]

if taken to the extreme, hello mr. Fascism

modern society is decadent, religion is soft, morals relative, blood
and soil, blah blah blah
rich

On 9/3/08, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> which lightweight ATD correlation struck me while reading:
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> 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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