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thabet 06:23:33 am on August 23, 2008 | 0 | # |
Tags: beliefs, irrationality, rationality, tradition

The issue [...] isn’t - or at least isn’t always - one of rationality versus irrationality. It’s: which rationality?
thabet 02:27:47 am on August 16, 2008 | 5 | # |
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.