Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
It was first encountered by a 16 year old in a class on contemporary Jewish thinkers. The student found Heschel's critique of irrelevant and dull religious experiences relatable to his own experiences in his synagogue.
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats.
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It was first encountered by a 16 year old in a class on contemporary Jewish thinkers. The student found Heschel's critique of irrelevant and dull religious experiences relatable to his own experiences in his synagogue.
It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats.
Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid.