The decreasing church attendance and increasing numbers of those who claim a personal god is a trend that speaks to the fact that this is all that religion really is or should be anyway. For the first time in almost three decades the most trusted leaders of the country started aggressively preaching a “If it feels good believe it” national policy and I think you can trace all of our present problems back to that moment. They managed to frame the process as either voting for them, Jesus’ party, our the Dems, Darwin’s party. Even though they never kept they’re promises to the trusting religious flock, it didn’t matter. With pervasive low voter turn out these dedicated relgious voter put the Republicans over the top. And it didn’t matter that the majority of the country didn’t feel that way. Reagan and his advisers had a plan, to turn one half of the government into a theocracy and it worked. I grew up in that same town twenty years later and I wasn’t. But even in that backwater in the 70d’s they we’re taught real science.
In the early seventies my mother’s parents moved from Houston to the tiny town of Livingston, Texas, and let me tell you, the culture shock was enormous. During the next decade of the Sixties we got movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey showing our ape ancestors and the famous Time Magazine front page cover “Is God dead ?” turned back to science because we realized it was in our self interest. During that decade we had started down the wrong path but we had the epoch changing “Sputnik moment”. And I don’t think it was the 50d’s where we stopped. Woodrow Wilson said in 1912 that every educated person accepted evolution. They needed a religious awaking because at that time, even after hundreds of years into our foundation, people weren’t paying that much attention to religion. I live in Texas and even here, that guy would be looked at as a zealot.īeing religious fruit cakes is not craved into our dna. But we’re not a country of Marty McLain’s. Large parts of the country are arrogant, selfish, and culturally isolated.
Hi David, American deserves a lot of the derision we receive.
Read the full article by clicking the name of the source located below. One guy puts it bluntly: “If there is no god, why should I believe in him?” Ouch. Almost no one he talks to on the street seems interested in God. McLain, who’s favorite expression is “wow,” is wowed a lot. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that most of them don’t. McLain wanted to use his time in the north to explore how Scandinavians worship God. The concept is simple: find narrow-minded Americans and throw them into countries like Norway, Sweden and Denmark and watch them have panic attacks. Pastor Marty McLain, who describes his religious belief as deriving from a literal interpretation of the Bible, was given the opportunity to see how secular Scandinavia is by a documentary series called The Norden. A Georgia-based pastor had his mind blown when he took a recent trip to Scandinavia and discovered, to his horror, that nobody hated gay people or believed God created the Earth in a week.
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