According to the Blair Faith Foundation, “though many Enlightenment thinkers assumed that religion and faith were on the wane, to be inevitably replaced by rational, scientific insight, this theory looks increasingly implausible today. Rather than Europe leading the way, it is now clearly the exception to the rule. The world is becoming more religious.” How do you explain this trend?
The point is that though the aspect of religion that sometimes wrongly seems to mirror superstition is on the decline; the aspect of Faith that is about creating a basis of moral guidance for life is very much still with us.
Moreover, people do not see that basis as coming from humanity alone, but reflecting the will of a Higher Being. Yet the empirical evidence as to how people view Faith today is hard to come by. We really need accurate qualitative and quantitative surveys and they are thin on the ground.
Read more about why religiously illiterate people cannot lead in the 21st century and how an increasingly religiously illiterate Europe can deal with a world in which religion plays an increasing and sometimes dominant role.
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