A disastrous war. A criminal President. Leftists calling for revolution. Widespread cynicism. A fascination with the mystical. Figures that we'd redo the Sixties and Seventies and leave out the music.
I believe it was G.K. Chesterton who surmised it was not so that when people ceased to believe in religion they would believe in nothing. Instead, they would believe in anything.
This is one of the reasons the rate of depression among young women is so high. The “spiritual-but-not-religious” are not only forfeiting the communal aspect of organized religion, which is associated with better mental wellness, but they’re also exempting themselves from the responsibilities, obligations, and associated self-discipline of religion. Moreover, exorcists report that practitioners of New Age/occultism are inviting in the diabolical – which sooner or later leads to all sorts of bad outcomes.
A disastrous war. A criminal President. Leftists calling for revolution. Widespread cynicism. A fascination with the mystical. Figures that we'd redo the Sixties and Seventies and leave out the music.
and the sex.
True
This is so depressing. It's really hard to accept that so many are even semi-seriously drawn to such obvious horseshit.
I believe it was G.K. Chesterton who surmised it was not so that when people ceased to believe in religion they would believe in nothing. Instead, they would believe in anything.
This is one of the reasons the rate of depression among young women is so high. The “spiritual-but-not-religious” are not only forfeiting the communal aspect of organized religion, which is associated with better mental wellness, but they’re also exempting themselves from the responsibilities, obligations, and associated self-discipline of religion. Moreover, exorcists report that practitioners of New Age/occultism are inviting in the diabolical – which sooner or later leads to all sorts of bad outcomes.