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Growth of global desecularization (view source)
Revision as of 01:21, April 9, 2016
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The Brookings Institution, one of America's oldest think tanks, indicates:
The Brookings Institution, one of America's oldest think tanks, indicates:
{{cquote|There was a belief for centuries that modernization meant westernization and secularization. As Rabbi Sacks described, the 17th through 20th centuries were witness to the secularization of knowledge, power, culture, and morality. However, this secularization is not sustainable. According to Rabbi Sacks, the 21st century will be more religious than the 20th, even if not one religious believer persuades any skeptic, because “the more intensely you believe religiously, the more children you have.”<ref>[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/11/16-rabbi-sacks-religious-violence Rabbi Sacks: Three things western civilization got wrong about religion] by Liz Sablich, November 16, 2015, Brookings Institute website</ref>}}
{{cquote|There was a belief for centuries that modernization meant westernization and secularization. As Rabbi Sacks described, the 17th through 20th centuries were witness to the secularization of knowledge, power, culture, and morality. However, this secularization is not sustainable. According to Rabbi Sacks, the 21st century will be more religious than the 20th, even if not one religious believer persuades any skeptic, because “the more intensely you believe religiously, the more children you have.”<ref>[http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2015/11/16-rabbi-sacks-religious-violence Rabbi Sacks: Three things western civilization got wrong about religion] by Liz Sablich, November 16, 2015, Brookings Institute website</ref>}}
A ''Christian Post'' in an article entitled ''Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Secularism Can't Solve Today's Religious Violence; Answers Rooted in 'Sibling Rivalry' of Jews, Christians, Muslims'':
{{cquote|But those 17th century ideas will not work in the 21st century, Sacks continued, because, "the 17th century was the beginning of an age of secularization which has lasted four centuries until now; the 21st century is exactly the opposite, it's the beginning of an age of desecularization. Religion is seizing power; they're not yielding power. ... We are going to have to do the theological work that was not done four centuries ago."<ref>[http://www.christianpost.com/news/rabbi-jonathan-sacks-secularism-cant-solve-todays-religious-violence-answers-rooted-in-sibling-rivalry-of-jews-christians-muslims-140754/ ''Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Secularism Can't Solve Today's Religious Violence; Answers Rooted in 'Sibling Rivalry' of Jews, Christians, Muslims'']<ref>}}
Another factor which could increase the pace of desecularization is economic instability as their is a positive correlation between economic instability and religiosity.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/05/economics-and-darwinismatheism.html Economics and atheism/Darwinism]</ref> And Europe's economic stagnation combined with its aging population points to future economic instability in Europe (see: [[Secular Europe#Secular Europe's economic crisis|Secular Europe's economic crisis]]).
Another factor which could increase the pace of desecularization is economic instability as their is a positive correlation between economic instability and religiosity.<ref>[http://questionevolution.blogspot.com/2013/05/economics-and-darwinismatheism.html Economics and atheism/Darwinism]</ref> And Europe's economic stagnation combined with its aging population points to future economic instability in Europe (see: [[Secular Europe#Secular Europe's economic crisis|Secular Europe's economic crisis]]).