Rising Grace - The Collapse of Religion in America

American Grace and public sociology « The Immanent Frame: "One main finding is that, as compared to thirty years ago (their baseline of comparison), religion and politics have tended to line up more consistently than they had previously, such that people who are more religious tend to be more conservative politically, whereas people who are less religious tend to be more liberal. One of the chief reasons is that younger people have been put off by the association of religion with conservative politics since the time of the Moral Majority. This was itself, according to Putnam and Campbell, a response to the upheavals of the 1960s, and especially to its challenges to gender and sexual norms. Religious-political polarization has been the consequence."

The headline is my take on this. The future is an enlightened once-born secularity that is spiritual according to its hewing to the values of democracy, tolerance, helpfulness and non-idolatry.

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