Fareed: The rapid secularization of America

CNN's Fareed Zakaria weighs in on former President Donald Trump's faith-based campaign tactics and how he harnesses White evangelical voters. #CNN #News

[kpokpojiji]

There is nothing pushing young people away from religion like Evangelical hate.

[ThThinkr]

The solution? Thomas Paine - "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

[pm]

I guess this just proves Steven Weinberg right:
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

[hadara]

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers AS
-Luceas Anneaus Seneca

[e.edc]

The day I left organized religion was the day I began to live the life God meant for me.

[nicholaspiet]

Very well done. Fareed has become an outstanding political commentator. Unfortunately, what he says is very true. Never let a preacher tell ya how to vote and never let a politician tell ya how to pray. It's really quit simple.

[BartSantello]

Religion has failed because it's about power not humanity.

[WattWireNet]

I strongly disagree with Fareed's notion that the decline of religion is related to the decline in happiness. Look at Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands. All in top 7 of least religious countries, and in the top 7 of most happy countries! There are many studies about happiness, but an analysis by Forbes India shows strong support of healthcare, unemployment benefits, education, economic equality, and connection to nature are more important.

[EddieEads]

We told the Middle East they needed secular democracy but we don't?

[GO-GO_SO-SO]

And it really doesn't help that the politics many religious people take part in is often times quite toxic, hateful, bigoted, and exclusive. That is bound to drive many people away.

[biffmalarkey]

When I was a child, my deeply religious mother told me I had to give up my invisible friend and grow up. So I stopped going to church.

[hawkname]

Secularization is one of the only broad-based improvements in society.

[billmitchell]

People who believe foolish things, vote for fools.

[joonzville]

14% of the population shouldn’t have the right to dictate to the rest of us, especially when most of the evangelicals vote for corruption. repression, discrimination and hate.

The rich .01% of the population shouldn’t be dictating policy (and who gets tax breaks and special privileges) either, but that’s a somewhat different problem.

[howardhughes]

30% is an understatement. I’d say it is twice that with a lot of people claiming to be Christian, but having no idea what that means.

[Paine]

Losing faith isn’t a void, it’s emancipation.

[patriciawebb]

The louder the evangelical movement becomes, the more people will distance themselves from religion. The evangelicals made morality and faith a big joke. We are maturing as a country and we don't need silly superstitions to guide us.

[danjohnston]

The Chump is the Golden Calf of the MAGA

[NoWay]

Many people evolved to like the taste of boot. There's a conservative rhetorical trope about "needing" someone to worship. They cannot imagine a world without some tyrannical hierarchy.

[voxtelnismo]

That gaping hole in your heart can be filled with science. It provides the same spiritual experience as religion. It humbles you, while showing you a glimpse into something great, eternal, and mysterious.

It is also a lot less fragile than religion. When new evidence comes out that disproves something you believed, it doesn't shatter your whole world and destroy families.