Where are my manners?

[athelind]

When did it stop being bad manners to talk about religion and personal belief?

Ninety-nine percent of our problems with polarization and conflict stem from the shift in culture that's made this an acceptable topic of public discourse.

I miss the concept of "boundaries".

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Comments

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

1. I'm thinking the children were questioning faith because what has been going up is the amount of "pride" people have in their religion, and the drive of some people have to identify themselves by religion instead of other attributes (such as 'artist', 'nurse', 'mother'). This instills behavior in children -- they ask because they observe the almost ethnic importance their parents place on the subject. This is something I have seen on the rise -- after 9/11, people were TOO proud to identify as being of a Western religion.

2. I'd say the wide cultural acceptance of chaplains is growing wider and wider each day. But the intolerance of evangelicals is also growing. Unfortunately, the evangelicals are running a business model -- and that far outpaces the growth of the number of civic duty bound chaplains.

3. Jack Chick... funny you should mention the "Tijuana Bible" -- Jack Chick comics are like the raunchy/nasty logic porn. Just the thought of being alone on a debate floor with any one of the fools who have anything to do with the comic makes me want to touch myself right now ;)