I am trying to imagine you in a room full of born again Christians ! Having wrestled with this image for long enough, I conclude the bar is the best place to be !
The Christian orders of service make reference to the Old Testament which to all intents and purposes, including the Ten Commandments, was the blueprint for a fundamentalist Jewish State, liberated by the Messiah from the persecution of the Egyptians and latterly the Roman Empire.
Today this would be called Zionism, supported by the Balfour Declaration because the Jewish people rejected two claimants to be the Messiah, namely Jesus Christ (around which Christianity was formed) and the Prophet Muhammad (around which Islam came into being).
I make this point firstly because this would evidence the first Great Schism which was the Jewish people between those who yearned for the Messiah and those who set humanity on the road to secularism, and secondly because of an obvious anomaly citing the Old Testament as a blueprint for Christianity
So should we be making a distincting between spirituality, which is something intangible that there is a better purpose to life than serving an elite human minority and political expediency, which the same elites use to further their own agenda ?
I think so and when I see there are moves afoot between Christian and Islamic clerics and theologians to bridge their differences centred around what the message of Jesus Christ really is, maybe a rise in spirituality is a sign that people, especially Gen Z, are seeing through much of the State sponsored, divisive b/s and are far better placed to take the baton forward
I conclude with this wonderful sketch from Yes Prime Minister
I do read about Gen Z being the source of the spiritual awakening. That makes sense because the young are the most likely to change their mind, or catch the new wave.
The polling companies don't do "how religious are you" surveys too often, so I have yet to see this reflected in any data.
Agreed though I suspect the questioning of a Gen Z polling sample would be as ambiguous as the questions which led the same pollsters to conclude Labour would win 46% of the popular vote last July
I am trying to imagine you in a room full of born again Christians ! Having wrestled with this image for long enough, I conclude the bar is the best place to be !
The Christian orders of service make reference to the Old Testament which to all intents and purposes, including the Ten Commandments, was the blueprint for a fundamentalist Jewish State, liberated by the Messiah from the persecution of the Egyptians and latterly the Roman Empire.
Today this would be called Zionism, supported by the Balfour Declaration because the Jewish people rejected two claimants to be the Messiah, namely Jesus Christ (around which Christianity was formed) and the Prophet Muhammad (around which Islam came into being).
I make this point firstly because this would evidence the first Great Schism which was the Jewish people between those who yearned for the Messiah and those who set humanity on the road to secularism, and secondly because of an obvious anomaly citing the Old Testament as a blueprint for Christianity
So should we be making a distincting between spirituality, which is something intangible that there is a better purpose to life than serving an elite human minority and political expediency, which the same elites use to further their own agenda ?
I think so and when I see there are moves afoot between Christian and Islamic clerics and theologians to bridge their differences centred around what the message of Jesus Christ really is, maybe a rise in spirituality is a sign that people, especially Gen Z, are seeing through much of the State sponsored, divisive b/s and are far better placed to take the baton forward
I conclude with this wonderful sketch from Yes Prime Minister
https://youtu.be/-nrZBtKWSfs?si=GwBifGc8BcQ-4o5X
I do read about Gen Z being the source of the spiritual awakening. That makes sense because the young are the most likely to change their mind, or catch the new wave.
The polling companies don't do "how religious are you" surveys too often, so I have yet to see this reflected in any data.
Agreed though I suspect the questioning of a Gen Z polling sample would be as ambiguous as the questions which led the same pollsters to conclude Labour would win 46% of the popular vote last July