Religion and Society

This is a fascinating discussion about how religion is surviving alongside modernism, and where it is, good things happen! Imagine that. A taste:

"European secularists assume that the church is on the side of the ancien régime, of the establishment, that it's against reason and democracy and liberal emancipation, and there is a lot of evidence for that in Europe. But in America the evangelical movement advanced alongside democracy and liberal enlightened values. They were not oppositional forces but comrades in arms. If you give people more freedom and more democracy they will talk about what they want to talk about and obviously for many people that is God. Religion itself has also been important for advancing democracy - it's an example of the little platoons of civil society. Churches nurture certain civic values, that's why the Chinese government, and all totalitarian governments, have been very suspicious of them and have tried to crush them."

Good article, read it here.

Michael Crichton on Environmentalism as a Religion

A brilliant mind no longer whinnying with us.

NOT EVIL JUST WRONG

I can't wait for this movie! About time someone had the courage to stand up to the crazies.