Canadian Politics Today

How is the Death of God not going well ?

…we have to work our morality out ourselves.  It's not going well.

Do you not see some strife in the world?

I get that this line of question is driven by your simple distaste for religion, but can't you see that sometimes positive changes have short term or even medium-term negative effects?

The death of God is the end of a horizon of possibilities, of a directional beacon for Western culture. Like the industrial revolution, it may be a good thing, but the interregnum is terrifying.

Can we not see that these things are simultaneously true:

1) The end of religion is an inevitable and overall positive evolution of human understanding of ourselves and the universe

and

2) It causes a giant void, and a short/medium term existential problem in that so much of society and culture was built on religion

Are BD and SVS disputing that ?

You can talk about the problems of the end of religion without pining for religion to return.

But if Christianity is defined by empathy, caring, and generosity, these values are rampant and out of control in our society, as discussed in the Woke Culture thread.