The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
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The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
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#2Boy, that list looks pretty similar to the principles of Unitarian Universalism (full disclosure, born and raised). The suggestions are good but if we look at the history of the Unitarian Universalism it was heralded by various scholars as the secular religion for the coming enlightened future. None of that has happened and the fastest growing religious communities these days are fundamentalist, evangelical Christians. I agree with the sentiment of the author, but reality suggests that we secular minded folk are missing something in the implementation.
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#3Good article, even though most of these points have been discussed for a long time by other people already.
Sunday Assembly in London looks interesting, I just might join. Everyone needs a prophet.
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#4I wonder if an "organized secularism" would only copy some the problems found in organized religion. Do people become less religious only because of a rejection of the supernatural, or for other reasons as well? I think some people become less religious for two additional reasons as well: "shared values" and "rituals."
A set of shared values is nice until it fails to change in response to changes in the values of individuals. For example, the Catholic Church has been slow to accept the rights of gender and sexual minorities, even as many individual Catholics become more accepting of these rights. The result is a split in the church, between those who want an updated set of values and those who prefer the old set.
Individuals may also dislike some of rituals associated with religions, perhaps because they take time or have some other cost that the individual doesn't want to pay (fasting, reduction of pleasure, etc.).
A secular community that adopts a shared set of values and rituals may only take on some of the problems leading to less religiosity, rather than solving them.
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#5What we "need" is for people to worship Jesus Christ and get their butts to church.
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#6You have to laugh.
No, no, please. Castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful guys.
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#7I think this would be strengthened considerably with the help of global networking. There are a lot of similar organisations worldwide that could be effectively merged with the right kind of social networking.
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#8Boy, that list looks pretty similar to the principles of Unitarian Universalism (full disclosure, born and raised). The suggestions are good but if we look at the history of the Unitarian Universalism it was heralded by various scholars as the secular religion for the coming enlightened future. None of that has happened and the fastest growing religious communities these days are fundamentalist, evangelical Christian…
Interesting, I had never heard of this. For those who are curious, wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism
Re: The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
#9Good article, even though most of these points have been discussed for a long time by other people already. Sunday Assembly in London looks interesting, I just might join. Everyone needs a prophet.
> Everyone needs a prophet.
Nah.
Re: The World Needs a Secular Community Revolution
#10I wonder if an "organized secularism" would only copy some the problems found in organized religion. Do people become less religious only because of a rejection of the supernatural, or for other reasons as well? I think some people become less religious for two additional reasons as well: "shared values" and "rituals." A set of shared values is nice until it fails to change in response to changes in the values of ind…
I think what makes most religions so inflexible is having a canon which can be difficult to circumvent. If a secular order is based on the opinions of the founders who are treated as wise humans instead of divine, it becomes easier to accept that they could be wrong or just misinformed.