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thabet

• 02:27:47 am on August 16, 2008 | # | |
  Tags: consumerism, culture, faith, modernity, religion, tradition, united states

  We have forgotten that ties of faith and history have not been overwhelmed by modernity elsewhere, as they have been in America. The world is not a melting pot. Nor is every culture as frivolous and forgetful as ours [...] We shop for church experiences as we shop for everything else folding religion into our consumer culture.

   

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  Tariq Nelson 4:04 am on August 16, 2008 | #

  We shop for church experiences as we shop for everything else folding religion into our consumer culture.

  Which is ironically why Americans are more religious than Europeans. There is a competition in the religious marketplace, unlike in European countries where one denomination enjoys a monopoly and does not have to compete for followers

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  VICTORIA 9:46 am on August 16, 2008 | #

  I have unquestionably been guilty of such behavior- I even referred to it as church shopping.
  But I am happy about it.
  One man’s frivolity may be another woman’s freedom.
  Without which, I could quite possibly be tied to a franciscan convent.
  That historically tetherless approach allowed me to find my own way- whose foundation is all the more solid because it consolidated within me, and was not a false socially imposed faith.

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  VICTORIA 9:48 am on August 16, 2008 | #

  Out of curiosity- what does this [...] signify?
  Is it a mouth set in some grim determination or resignation, or- what is it?

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  Tariq Nelson 4:17 pm on August 16, 2008 | #

  [...] signifies that text was cut out

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  thabet 11:50 pm on August 16, 2008 | #

  Yep, or where a paragraph was collapsed.

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