or woman who thinks and knows he thinks. And it has been secularized , I think, in a really great way, which is the way it's offered now, in many contexts, there's no Buddhism at all.
You know the joke about the--I write a lot about the Ten Commandments—the joke about the Unitarians is that they call them the Ten Suggestions. There are many forms of secularized worship now and they're becoming, Kinderschules in the Jewish religion, for example, which abandoned any idea of monotheism, but want that sense of heritage and want that ongoing tradition that is imbued with Jewishness as opposed to Judaism, which is very rooted in monotheism and belief in God. There are Agnostic societies.
is dead. As societies modernize, they secularize necessarily, right? Well, a lot of those sociologists, in light of you know, recent movements and trends and demographics, say that they made what Berger calls a "category mistake." Modernity doesn't so much secularize as it pluralizes, right? And, indeed, what numbers show right now is that there's, there's religion, as Peter Berger says, "The world is as religious as it ever was; perhaps more furiously religious than ever." Right? Sure, there's a growth in people who call themselves nonbelievers,
So I really do think this is-- the only way you're going to know whether you're getting the benefits is how it shows up in your own life. But the kind of stuff that's being taught in schools is secularized .
living during a time of religious revival. You know, the best sociologists forty years ago, people like Peter Berger, many, many other were saying that, you know, religion is dead. As societies modernize, they secularize necessarily, right? Well, a lot of those sociologists, in light of you know, recent movements and trends and demographics, say that they made what Berger calls a "category mistake." Modernity doesn't so much secularize as it pluralizes, right? And, indeed, what numbers show right now is that there's, there's religion, as
the missions, which were these outposts of civilization. And of all the missions along California, Mission San Gabriel is probably the most successful mission; the one that really worked the best. But in 1833, they secularized all the missions and they basically, eventually sold those lands and they became part of other ranchos. Now, when the Mexican government took over, and this is a very loose control of the Californians who lived here, the Californians who lived in Los Angeles area paid very little attention to government.
down this stultifying, feudal, medieval class system that had held so much of that society back for centuries and centuries before that and that's kind of interesting, to me. And, in fact, it's ability to sort of tear down class structures and secularize society and make people autonomous and free thinking individuals, remains to this day. The writer of that particular book points out that every totalitarian society that's emerged in the last, even a hundred years, has had as a common theme, an opposition to
popularity. And it sends Bayes out into this scientific and the technological world, where outsiders from computer science, from physics, artificial intelligence, refresh it, broaden it, secularize it, de-politicize it and it gets adopted almost overnight. It was a modern paradigm shift