This argument fails to understand "secularization" as a more advanced concept. It reduces religiosity to nothing more than identity proclamation. It merely counts the number of individuals who check a box identifying as Christian, or Muslim, etc. This may be part of a secularization hypothesis, but it fails to see secularization as a process which occurs within understandings of religion. Secularization should be understood as containing, or connected to, demystification which sees understandings of the world as changing with the growth of technology and education. To be a Christian today does not at all necessarily mean the same thing as being a Christian in the 18th, 16th, or 14th centuries. Today many people who identify as "Christians" will reject parts of a Christian narrative that was more universally accepted in the past. Belief in the real existence of Adam and Eve, and Noah's Flood, and the Genesis story of creation have declined substantially over time, and faith in God's immediate interactivity in the world has diminished as well. How many modern Christians believe that prayer can impact daily life events compared to Christians in the past, and how many of those who identify as "Christian" fail to participate in religious ceremonies and activities on a regular basis? All of this, beyond the mere statement of identity on a census form, is contained within the secularization process which has occurred over the recent centuries and continues to occur today. Because of this, and more, the hypothesis stated in this video fails completely. (Also, different statistics challenge even the assertion that the growth in religious identity is occurring in a manner similar to that described.)
Dear lady, we don’t know when you were born. Please, just say when.
Nonsense. See books by Ronald Inglehart and Steve Bruce
No she is speaking truth
@@jonjonboi3701she is incorrect. And does not understand the “secularization thesis.”
Not nonsense, but it does seems her projections were slightly undercooked
This argument fails to understand "secularization" as a more advanced concept. It reduces religiosity to nothing more than identity proclamation. It merely counts the number of individuals who check a box identifying as Christian, or Muslim, etc. This may be part of a secularization hypothesis, but it fails to see secularization as a process which occurs within understandings of religion. Secularization should be understood as containing, or connected to, demystification which sees understandings of the world as changing with the growth of technology and education. To be a Christian today does not at all necessarily mean the same thing as being a Christian in the 18th, 16th, or 14th centuries. Today many people who identify as "Christians" will reject parts of a Christian narrative that was more universally accepted in the past. Belief in the real existence of Adam and Eve, and Noah's Flood, and the Genesis story of creation have declined substantially over time, and faith in God's immediate interactivity in the world has diminished as well. How many modern Christians believe that prayer can impact daily life events compared to Christians in the past, and how many of those who identify as "Christian" fail to participate in religious ceremonies and activities on a regular basis? All of this, beyond the mere statement of identity on a census form, is contained within the secularization process which has occurred over the recent centuries and continues to occur today. Because of this, and more, the hypothesis stated in this video fails completely. (Also, different statistics challenge even the assertion that the growth in religious identity is occurring in a manner similar to that described.)