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David E's avatar

Very evocative for me. I recently listened to a BBC Radio 4 episode of the In Our Time podcast on "Typology" and was thinking about the connection to metaphors and culture as well as just starting John Warner's book "more than words" about writing in the age of AI. Perhaps weirdness is an excellent cognitive strategy for less-than-predictable times of change.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates's avatar

Stuck the landing 😂

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lchristopher's avatar

Only in the West.

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Jessica Leash's avatar

The reason I chose religious studies, is because I really believe that American culture, no matter how secular, is based in religion. People think that they are true original thinkers, but so much has evolved from religion, and because it isn’t taught, people don’t realize it. Thanks for your reflections.

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Big Worker's avatar

The decline in theology has got to be something to do with how anyone who thinks deeply about philosophical and theological questions pretty quickly realizes that we shouldn't be giving any credence to the underlying fact claims from religion that theology is based on. I read an article a few months back about how seminaries these days are factories for turning their students into atheists. When religious thinkers are coming at it from that sort of "we all know this isn't really TRUE true, just a nice cultural tradition I'm part of" angle it's tough to justify spending much time on theology.

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Adam Kotsko's avatar

But presumably religious claims were always false, which provides no explanation for specific, recent trends.

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