According to the American Religious Identification Survey 2008, religion, and specifically Christianity, in America is in decline. But how are we to understand this decline? ABC News quotes Serene Jones, president of the Union Theological Seminary, “We are becoming a nation of spiritually anchored people who are not traditionally religious.” If we are not traditionally religious, what are we? Are we irreligious? Traditional religion was understood to be a response, in word and deed, to the Divine, the Absolute, the Truth. But in the Postmodern era, Universal, Objective Truth has been declared non-existent. If this is correct, of what value is being religious? What value, if any, does Religion possess? Is it it’s worth? In short, Why be Religious? These are questions the philosopher John Caputo attempts to answer.
Are you Religious?
According to the American Religious Identification Survey 2008, religion, and specifically Christianity, in America is in decline. But how are we to understand this decline? ABC News quotes Serene Jones, president of the Union Theological Seminary, “We are becoming a nation of spiritually anchored people who are not traditionally religious.” If we are not traditionally religious, what are we? Are we irreligious? Traditional religion was understood to be a response, in word and deed, to the Divine, the Absolute, the Truth. But in the Postmodern era, Universal, Objective Truth has been declared non-existent. If this is correct, of what value is being religious? What value, if any, does Religion possess? Is it it’s worth? In short, Why be Religious? These are questions the philosopher John Caputo attempts to answer.
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