07-03-2021, 03:59 PM
(07-02-2021, 11:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-02-2021, 07:13 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(07-02-2021, 07:02 PM)David Horn Wrote:(07-02-2021, 05:10 PM)BAspieMillennial Wrote: One thing is that religious Millennials and Zoomers are refusing to date outside the faith. Believers are also divorcing the nonbelieving spouses for disbelief. There is more hardcore dedication as atheism becomes more common.
So you are now the intolerants you accuse others of being. Be a bit introspective. It’s extremely valuable.
Millennials are very much into consensus. If we compromise our beliefs they will overpower us and will refuse to compromise with us. We will have compromised for no reason. They don't live and let live so we don't have that option as Christians.
It could be the consensus of the 1T. It could be the secular tech-oriented attitude, and the middle aged millennials will conform and set the tone and religion will be suppressed. It will be interesting to see if you religious folks can find your place in the next "high-tech high." Will there be enough consensus and enough prosperity to allow a conformist society, or won't there still be so many concerns that rebels and traditionalists alike will still question authority and depart from the predominant consensus? I tend to think so.
In the last 1T, it was kind of a mix. People had both secular and religious; well, sorta. We had the humanist manifesto becoming accepted and the materialist and tech worship and progress is our most important product, and the men in the grey flannel suit keeping up with the Joneses and the Giacometti Man and the inner gyroscopes. We also had Norman Vincent Peale (an inspiration to Trump) and plain-looking churches on every street corner and people going dutifully on Sundays to lifeless services and getting preached at. You could have you choice, or do both; in either case in mindless robotic motion. But it was OK, at least for white guys; they had their secure careers and pensions and earned their silver watches, and the middle class was growing and America was the top and lots of great new conveniences ("what will they think of next?") and amazing freeways and cars that looked like rocket ships and TV shows like Leave it to Beaver and those disgusting westerns all the time creating the myth of America, and we only had to worry about the Russians and love the bomb, and maybe look for a red under every bed....
If you weren't a white straight adult guy though, you were fair game for abuse or put downs or red-lined-confinement in ghettos, which however were still communities. Not for long though, because urban renewal and black removal was in the works too.
Society? What society? You can move and have separate communities doing their own thing. If the majority doesn't accept us it's time to be more insular. Only befriend and marry each other.