Comments on: Religiosity slides worldwide but plummets in scandal-hit Ireland http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/08/08/religiosity-slides-worldwide-but-plummets-in-scandal-hit-ireland/ Religion, faith and ethics Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: LogicGuru http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/08/08/religiosity-slides-worldwide-but-plummets-in-scandal-hit-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-55891 LogicGuru Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:55:20 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/?p=26267#comment-55891 For godsake, isn't anyone going to do something about this? I love religion with all my heart and soul and mind. If it dies my life, and the life of many other people will be poorer. But now people perceive religion as nothing more than a pushback against modernity, an attempt to preserve "traditional values"--i.e. sexual taboos and sex roles. Please, won't anyone make some effort to disassociate religion from this garbage, and to promote it--as "spirituality" as a way to make contact with the supernatural, as metaphysical thills, as a source of pleasure? For godsake, isn’t anyone going to do something about this? I love religion with all my heart and soul and mind. If it dies my life, and the life of many other people will be poorer.

But now people perceive religion as nothing more than a pushback against modernity, an attempt to preserve “traditional values”–i.e. sexual taboos and sex roles.

Please, won’t anyone make some effort to disassociate religion from this garbage, and to promote it–as “spirituality” as a way to make contact with the supernatural, as metaphysical thills, as a source of pleasure?

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