Buddhism in Western Civilization as Jesus´ Legacy Society: Lauren Daigle Overview Becomes Opportunity To Reflect on

Nothing happened to her, she had a popular song in 2021. She is probably enjoying her life. I think this is click bate agree it was a bot talking. The Ellen show was a problem for a very small minority of her fans. Reply Share 2d Mark Rego MonteiroAuthor Admin Farah Buck Yeah, the title seems really geared to that anti-gay minority. Still, in a larger perspective, I see that my understanding of things in terms of Jesus´ legacy of loving integrity in ... society with structured pluralism suggests that Christian singers confirm how a shift is being created by secular culture. Daigle herself isn´t demonstrating an awakening into a more progressive Christianity, but a more secular progressive identity who may still call herself Christian. She´s certainly not running for Rev Jim Wallis for the poor, or Brian McLaren´s systematic reevaluation questions, and yeah, awareness of problems like Climate Change. There´s that part where Daigle says, 'Look in the Bible and tell me where you see (condemnation). I don´t see it." or the like. Meanwhile, secular artists like Sting have at least gone from strongly spiritual and political lyrics to some pro-eco-social projects, to even re-engaging with the Bible. Yet, the clarity is lacking. In that sense, I really like what I´ve seen at the Evangelical Environmental Network. I´ll post that. Reply Share 2d Farah Buck Mark Rego Monteiro insightful comments. How do you define secular culture, when you describe a shift? Do you mean a secular consumerist culture? Climate change takes concern about the future. Secular society is about living in the now, and evangelicals would say “the world is in God’s hands”. Buddhist philosophy is also about living in this moment. So how do Buddhists engage regarding climate change/the planet since it’s a future problem—do they worry about things they feel they cannot personally control? Reply Share 2d Mark Rego MonteiroAuthor Admin Farah Buck Great questions to reflect upon. Secular culture is a historical phenomenon in Jesus´ legacy of University-based philosophical scholarship with empiricism. While Jefferson et al are famous for their roles as the separation of church and state were formalized in US constitutional democracy with Civil Rights, and then Jefferson´s non-religious University of Virginia, its roots are earlier. In fact, it´s a famous context, as Descartes began expressing himself in philosophy without reference to God through Jesus Christ. He continued to be, formally, a Christian as a French-born Catholic in the protestant Netherlands. Yet, his ontological argument, reflecting a kind of First Cause of perfection argument, was limited to an intellectualized God. The rest of his material used basically a methodological naturalism, leading the well-known mathematical philosopher Pascal to protest. That is widely known as the "Cartesian mind-body split," although it actually involves issues of nature and spirit. Hugo Grotius, I learned some years ago, is known for expressing "natural law" in a similar vein, although he wrote amply on the importance of God and Jesus. John Locke did similar things in his philosophical work. Just as, if not more significantly, scientific natural philosophy headed in that direction, with Auguste Comte and Darwin himself showing how ideological materialism became an kind of obsession. "Consumerist culture" that you mention is an important starter term, more fully rendered "corporate-consumer culture," that in fact reflects the third and even more significant form of ideological materialism driving secularism away from a spiritual-religious sense to materialism. The British East India Co. was founded in 1600, and serves as a good sociohistorical marker for the rise of profiteering businesspeople´s ideology. The US famously rebelled against the BEICo´s context with Great Britain and the British Empire, and the US flag is actually taken from that company´ s own! Adam Smith by 1776, no less, used the scientific philosophy of physics to approach his economics, which actually was filled with his editorial comments of caution against abuse. Robert Owen also appeared, awakening slowly as a young and skillful businessman in the midst of factory-based industrial development following Watt´s steam engine. Although Marx and Engels are most famous in the public eye and mainstream culture, that´s because they have served other purposes for manipulators and others. The pioneering Rochdale co-op business, then, was founded in a sequence of the end of slavery inspired by the Quaker Friends and modern social movement campaigns. By 1895, there was an international organization. By 1920, on the good side, the US NCBA for co-op biz was founded after the credit union org of 1908. On the manipulative commercial side, Freud´s nephew based in the US Ed Bernays, started a new application of psychology in corporate profiteering ads, with the "Torches of Freedom" campaign that broke the taboo against women smoking by combining the women´s voting rights and the like. The problem can be seen earlier, but that marks and creates a new amplifying trend that has many significant branches, starting lightly with V Packard´s Hidden Persuaders just before 1960 and Ralph Nader´s appearance sparked by automobile deaths and in his book Unsafe at Any Speed. He was nicknamed a Consumer Advocate by that time. As for climate change, you mention "Secular society" being for the "now." There are a range of mindsets in a kind of spectrum, so that your point is sound, but incomplete. Progressive Christians like Barack Obama are secular materialists and influenced by the other two forms in a related sense to what you talk about. European green power co-ops were founded in their own mixed context. Danish citizens have a Christian identifying constitution, but are thus highly de-spiritualized and fairly "nationalized" in their spiritual religious identity. So, their secular materialism is at least pro-social in nature. It lacks, however, the empowering quality of full spiritual experiential identity that the Quaker Friends had. In the US, profiteer funding of fundamentalists seems to have made progressives more vulnerable to scientific materialism, with disempowering consequences. Their secular materialism limits their activism to politics while they operate in a consumeristic minimalism. Noam Chomsky wrote probing books, but Ralph Nader founded Civil Society groups, others food co-op stores, and Petra Kelly of Germany founded the Green Party. As for Buddhists, I agree with your perception about their tendency to "dissociate" from this world in traditional cases. The importance of grasping the effects of globalization´s good side is the infusion of democratic Civil Rights and UN human rights-social movement culture with its psychosocial benefits. All, you may recall I emphasize, in Jesus´ legacy. For the better, in many ways at least in part, in all cases. In the US, and European cultural contexts, in particular, Buddhism´s own powerful insights into the Four Noble Truths with the Eightfold Path of various Right Efforts and Meditation, it helps break, or anchor and spiritualize, Christian ideological dogmas and facilitate their individualizing experiential empowerment. There is a positive syncretism, since Buddhism has high spiritual integrity which rampant materialism has been obscuring or obfuscating in Christianity. I just posted about a Zen social project, no less, based in Syracuse, NY. Such practices as Right Effort and Meditation involve techniques like mindfulness that helps reconnect people to their experience, and breaking ideological orientations about various "things beyond personal control." As someone focuses on the taste of their food, and their ability to meditate while walking past lawns, trees, and meadows, they can begin to orient to the consumerist indoctrination that is their habit of shopping and working mindlessly. I already began poking through such conditioning in high school by questioning US Reagan era anti-Sandinista Nicaragua terrorism in the high school paper. I visited the Democratic Socialists of America in college a bit, a Unitarian Universalist service once in a great while, along with a Kung Fu class and a visit to a Zen temple, and more. All those modest touches were enough to prime me when I saw an ad for a job for environmental protection. It was a summer stint with the not for profit PIRGs, that many might ignore basically. It became part of my "snowballing awareness". After teaching in Africa for a year, and getting work in social services, I looked up Sierra Club hiking and Greenpeace even before the internet! I also volunteered with the UU homeless shelter and later found a food co-op store, along with buying green stuff and finding green businesses in a green biz magazine. Credo Telecom and what is now Beneficial Bank on the West Coast. All in need of being re-sacralized by an individual´s growth in spiritual awareness, and the need for individuals to build on secular democracy and materialistic individualism into spiritual modernization to pressure complacent churches and their dogmas, to different degrees. United Church of Christ is one of my favorite open-minded progressive denominations. Yet, Obama dissociated with his congregation because his minister went a little off the rails with his Afro-Am twist "God damn, America!" As for Civil Rights, then we can see interfaith spiritual practice as a category of culture that benefited from the loving qualities of Civil Rights. The Freedom of Religion was intended to respond to the violence of the Roman church´s autocracy, and subsequent conduct after Luther´s inspired Reformation. Individual Christian denominations often conducted themselves to remain outside that sociopolitical modernization, while University-based philosophical scholarship categorized it inclusively. Christian Universities persisted a little after political transformations of constitutional democracy, which helps to regain that understanding and revive it in a new, informed and spiritualized sense. Transpersonal with transcendental implications.