09-29-2021, 05:36 PM
(09-29-2021, 01:43 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:(09-29-2021, 01:18 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-29-2021, 11:26 AM)nguyenivy Wrote: Any examples we can link from prior saecula? Was religious uptake popular in prior 4T->1T transitions? I'd expect such behaviour only during the 4T itself with society being in collapse-mode.
This traditional revivalism has been a chief feature of Awakenings/2Ts, rather than 4Ts which tend to move toward the secular and the institutional, according to the authors of T4T, and this picture seems quite correct historically. The previous example of this came from fundamentalist Protestants and not so much from Catholics, and was known as the religious right or the moral majority, and helped to sponsor neoliberalism-- the cause of our current plight. But I would not look for any such revivalism until the late 2050s or 2060s, if it happens again, and not during the current 4T.
What about minority movements against majority secularism? Or subcultures against the secularist nihilist majority?
Secularism better respects minority views, even in religion, than does fundamentalism. Fundamentalist Muslims cannot understand Fundamentalist Christians even if they have similar psychological profiles. Secularism is tolerant unless it has a Marxist-Leninist bent.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.