"Today, words are routinely used as political weapons rather than as good-faith attempts to describe reality. Physical and moral truth can be inconvenient for certain factions trying to shape...
There’s no debate that the West is losing its religion. Recent statistics from the Pew Research Center show that in 2007, only 16% of U.S. adults denied having any religion—in 2021 that percentage almost doubled, making roughly three out of every ten Americans...
A real worldview would have something to say about every facet and dimension of whatever world it is we’re dealing with . . .
So, there was the expectation among lots of social scientists that religion would eventually disappear . . .
So, what he discerned was there seemed to be this place where the kind of axis turned in terms of religion, morality, and so forth . . .
Whether atheist or Christian, no matter what religion or philosophy, faith is found to be the foundation . . .
The first order of business is to try to assess where we are in America with Christianity, the West, and the world before thinking more about what to do . . .
In other words, the study of Western and American history today is reaching new lows. Our judgement is that historical study is worse than in crisis; it’s bankrupt . . .
In any case, we must point out that Christianity is a vast religion worldwide with just about every variation imaginable; indeed, some Christians don’t believe in God or the Resurrection . . .
We’d like to use Dr. Stark’s terrific example of narrative bias concerning the Spanish Inquisition to demonstrate how human belief functions to determine worldview, and particularly how beliefs shape narratives . . .
