I’m going to come back to this — Andrew Sullivan on “The Coming Age of the Nones.”
Sullivan writes about an article in US News about the growing percentage of secularist Americans, and how the non-religious may number a full quarter of American’s population two decades out.
There’s a part of me that welcomes more non-religious into the fold. There’s also a part of me that’s bloody damned frightened of the possibility. I worry about the reaction of the Religious Right to a swelling population of atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and deists.
As much as I see the truth in John Lennon’s “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink,” I also know that a wounded animal is a dangerous and deadly animal.
I have to ponder this.
More thoughts anon.
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A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over fifteen years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.
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