The speaker mentioned a series of articles in Life Magazine, later compiled into a book, about the world's religions. It posited that religions were declining due to scientific advancement. This book was said to be influential in the author's perspective.
The World's Great Religions.
— Episode: The Search for Transcendence
Episode: The Search for Transcendence
The speaker mentioned a series of articles in Life Magazine, later compiled into a book, about the world's religions. It posited that religions were declining due to scientific advancement. This book was said to be influential in the author's perspective.
The World's Great Religions.
It was a series of articles that was made into a book. And you can still find the book in a lot of libraries.
And I took it out recently and read it and it was amazing. Essentially, it had this opinion.
You could see it. It was very much informing the authors' writings. And the authors were saying, well, most of the world's great religions are diminishing but that's to be expected because in a scientific age people are going to feel less and less need for religion.
They're going to feel less and less need for the supernatural.