Modern destruction of religion

Modern destruction of religion:

-Hasan Spiker 

https://twitter.com/RealHasanSpiker/status/1676125441068011523 

Westerners today, particularly in the UK, generally look upon religion, even their own “indigenous” Christianity, with suspicion and incomprehension. Most only attend Church once a year at Midnight Mass, and even then they say, “How can this structure of arbitrary hierarchy and authority with no empirical evidence dictate to me? Is this not all merely cultural and historical, our heritage?” 

The terrible irony is that these are exactly the beliefs that the various forms of Christianity have taught them to have. Protestantism has taught them to fear and reject Authority and hierarchy; the split between faith and reason has led to the conception of faith as “blind faith” and the notion that the ONLY type of evidence is empirical evidence; the separation of powers, the eventual secular consequence of  "render unto Caesar" has led them to believe that what goes on in religion is a private affair that has little to do with "real" life, and Christian historicism, in which the putative Incarnation is a once-in-history historical event, has led them to believe that shattering historical events can change all of the rules; and even violate the principle of non-contradiction; hence the new salvific modern religion of “necessary progress.” 

Empiricism, historicism, religious faith as “blind faith” and the flattened, “equality”-bleating repudiation of hierarchy have become such deep-rooted assumptions

that the latest generations of modern people are increasingly unable even to understand the *sense* of religious language, experience, and truth claims. 

As the sociologist of secularization Callum Brown points out, in interviewing multi-generational families for a study of the nature of secularisation, a recent group of British researchers realised that unlike their parents and grandparents, more recent generations of young people suffered from "an absence of either a narrative structure or a set of terms with which the interviewees [were] able to answer. They are of a generation that has not sustained a training in how to express their religiosity." 

It is frightening that the same thing is starting to happen to youth in the Muslim community; an inability to comprehend the meaning of religious language, spiritual practice and the Unseen, because of scientistic, relativistic, and "democratic" assumptions. 

This is why a metaphysically-rooted, all-embracing recovery of our total worldview is such an urgent project. It is heartening that our community is becoming increasingly cognizant of this necessity.