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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Unfortunatly i think its a sign of the times we live in, or rather a reaction to it. In recent years (past 10 or so), theres been a wave of religious fundamentalism on the rise. Not sure why, although one could list many reasons for it. What is distressing is how some of our rights are being interppreted these days. To many of these fundamentalists, "Freedom OF religion" does not mean "Freedom FROM Religion", which is a gross abuse of our inalieable rights in order to assert dominance upon our society.
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Reasons:
People found out that unlimited consumarism doe snot necessarily make you happy.
Peopole found out that capoitalistic ideology does not answer questions that due to man's nature of being a spiritual being (=able to self-reflect and see a context greater than one own's immediate desires) pop up in man's mind necessarily: where do I come from, where do I go? why am I here, how much time do I have? What's the meaning of this cosmos. Victor frankl: a man who has a "why" to live for, will bear every "how" (translate from the German).
people found out that money cares for material needs, but does not satisfy your mind.
Rights and freedoms that has been fought for and emerged well-deseved from our history, did not stop at the blossoming of our culture, but kept on evovling, even beyond what was rteaosnbale and desribale, effecetively turning more and more into partially grotesque pervertions of their former meaning.
Materialism has sowed greed and envy, and made social climate cold. Social disbalances caused a desire to either see a meaning in them, or to change them, or both. People having stones, no hearts in their chest, are not warm.
Our genetical history drives us towards preferring (by tendency) to follow a strong alpha-animal who tells us what to do. Him or his dogma.