Understanding the Fertile Ground of Cultural Influences on Religious Movements
Cultures provide fertile soil for diverse religious movements due to various factors such as secularism, existential uncertainties, disillusionment with leaders, and a deep human longing for transcendence. Other contributing factors include breakdown of traditional social structures, moral relativism, openness to new beliefs, affluence, and failures within religious institutions.
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Our cultures fertile soil for religious movements 10 reasons for the long list of options on today s religious menu Howard Culbertson Southern Nazarene University 10/4/2024
1. Secularism Secular people May look religious, but no daily awareness of or reference to God and His church God and His people seem irrelevant Christianity seems boring and perhaps even untrue 10/4/2024
2. Anxiety over threats to human survival 10/4/2024
3. Uncertainties produced by complexity of modern existence 10/4/2024
4. Betrayals by political and religious leaders Televangelists like Baker, Swaggart Current Roman Catholic turmoil over sexual abuse Political leaders like Nixon, Clinton 10/4/2024
5. Intense longing for transcendence The god-shaped vacuum in the human heart Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher of the 1600 s 10/4/2024
6. Breakdown of family and neighborhood groups 10/4/2024
7. Feeling of lostness fostered by moral / religious relativism Religion comparison chart of skit in Worldview Boutique video Elephant metaphor 10/4/2024
8. Nave openness to religious imports 10/4/2024
9. Affluence and consumerism 10/4/2024
10. Failures in the church Inadequate Biblical teaching sub-Christian gospel of success Extreme individualism Sterile services Overemphasis on propositional truths Lack of authentic Christian community 10/4/2024
Our cultures fertile soil for religious movements End 10/4/2024
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