Essay: The New Zealand government is very welcoming to the notion of a postsecular New Zealand. A New Zealand filled with kindness and compassion!

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In the latter part of the 21st century or sooner, New Zealand will experience a significant trend of desecularization and become a postsecular society (see: Postsecularism and New Zealand in the 21st century).

Jens Köhrsen, a professor for religion and economics at the Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics (ZRWP)[1], wrote:

“ [ Jürgen Habermas ] ...argues that a new age, the age of post-secularity, has begun. Previously vastly secularized societies, like the highly developed countries of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, would experience a new awareness of religion and attribute a new public role to religion. From now on, religion would constitute a relevant dialogue partner in the public debates of these societies (Habermas, 2008). Moreover, Habermas presents a normative argument about public religion: he recommends that post-secular societies should facilitate religious contributions to the public sphere. Religious reasoning could contribute to public debates about the ethical values of contemporaneous and future societies. Habermas believes that modern societies might find some answers to the moral questions of our time by listening to religion in public debates (Habermas, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008). A similar position to that of Habermas is proposed by Leclerc (2001) and French sociologist Willaime (2004a, 2004b, 2005[1995]: 76-78, 2008). Willaime observes that even the highly secularized public and political sphere of France is exhibiting a new, more open attitude towards religion. The hypersecularity of France would stimulate a restructuration process of religion. According to Willaime, religion can form an important resource for public debates and be engaged in the identity construction process of individuals and collectives.[2] ”

For more information, please see: Labor shortages, religious immigrants and desecularization projected to be faster in New Zealand in the 21st century

The New Zealand government is very welcoming to the notion of a postsecular New Zealand. A New Zealand filled with kindness and compassion!

As can be seen above, the New Zealand government is very welcoming to the notion of a postsecular New Zealand.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: Come on in religious immigrants! New Zealand is looking forward to a postsecular age filled with kindness and compassion!

Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern, an agnostic, spoke during centenary celebrations at Rātana Church in November. She gifted her Bible to the movement, saying it was a symbol of her promise to lead a government that was kind and compassionate.[3]

To do this date, not a single Christian leader of a nation has held up Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion as a symbol of of his promise to lead a government that was kind and compassionate - despite it far outselling other atheist books (Of course, no atheist book in history has even a sliver of the sales of the best-selling book of all time which is the Bible). Atheists are not known for being compassionate! See: Atheism and charity

Deep down, every atheist and agnostic knows that a compassionate God exists - including the ones in New Zealand!

Don't miss this artwork and pictures with captions!

St. Basil of Caesarea founded the first hospital. Christian hospitals subsequently spread quickly throughout both the East and the West.[4]

For more information, please see: Christianity and hospitals
The psychiatric hospital Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, formerly called the Serbsky Institute, was used during the Soviet Union era to engage in “psychiatric terror” against political dissidents.[5]

For more information, please see: Atheist hospitals
Most atheists likely live in East Asia (see: Asian atheism).

A beggar in Cambodia. In Cambodia, the vast majority of the population adheres to a nontheistic form of Buddhism called the Theravada school of Buddhism.

A comprehensive study by Harvard University professor Robert Putnam found that religious people are more charitable than their irreligious counterparts.[6]

For more information, please see: Atheism and charity

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References

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jens Köhrsen, University website faculty page
  2. ↑ How religious is the public sphere? – A critical stance on the debate about public religion and post-secularity, Draft Version, Jens Koehrsen (Köhrsen). Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Germany. École des hautes études en sciences socials, France. Published in: Acta Sociologica 55 (3), S. 273-288.
  3. ↑ Godless NZ? Not entirely - we're actually becoming a more Christian nation
  4. ↑ The Christian origin of hospitals
  5. ↑ Korotenko, Ada; Alikina, Natalia [Ада Коротенко, Наталия Аликина] (2002). Советская психиатрия: Заблуждения и умысел [Soviet psychiatry: fallacies and wilfulness] (in Russian). Kiev: Издательство «Сфера» [Publishing house "Sphere"]. ISBN 978-966-7841-36-2.
  6. ↑ Multiple references:
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