It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.
Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.
Religions get lost as people do.
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.