“Thank you for the informative, engaging and challenging program you create everyday. The fact that at the end of your program you “tag” people to get active in these challenging and polarizing times, is quite refreshing.
On the subject of religion, program 812&908. I wanted to share an experience that will give a window on why religion has become extremely unpopular, and dropping in attendance to 47% or 44% compared to 73% in 1951, as you mentioned in your program.
Fundamentalist and Evangelical sects specifically have been embracing, facilitating, and promoting (sometimes with the help of the state for self-preservation) psychological maneuvers and tactics directionally opposite to the spiritual nature they profess to their faithful followers. They use coercive techniques to dominate and lead groups of believers, who blindly follow in search of feeling socially identified.
From their position of absolute power and self-proclaimed divine representation, they point to and signal those individuals who their leaders dislike, guiding their loyal ones “to treat that person or family worse than a sinner” for being of a different ethnicity, not bending to their will/doctrines, or for being independent in their thinking.
So, the exodus drop in attendance has to do, in my view and personal experience, with control, fear based tactics, and sadistic behaviors adopted by different religious groups and not the lack of willingness for spiritual growth.
It is true what you promote, that “Democracy is NOT a Spectator Sport, it requires all of us”.”
iGaucho's via Apple Podcasts ·
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07/12/21