To: redgolum
You can even restrict it to the past 40 years. But the radical individualism was set in motion by the Reformation, it just took a while to get the ball really rolling.
131 posted on
08/08/2009 2:14:39 PM PDT by
annalex
(http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
To: annalex
Maybe. Though the “spinning off of restraints” has also been traced back to the Black Death years.
Though that has been also been cited as a cause of the Reformation.
139 posted on
08/08/2009 3:07:04 PM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: annalex; redgolum
You can even restrict it to the past 40 years. But the radical individualism was set in motion by the Reformation, it just took a while to get the ball really rolling.
As a Catholic, i'd like to agree with you, but the fact is that church attendance has dropped since the second world war -- since that event. The next generation after that was the Baby boomers
and THEY, single-handedly, made the West godless. I suspect it was because they saw the effects of WWII and the carnage, yet didn't have the discipline and the perseverence their parents had. A greedy generation (with many notable exceptions of course, but I talk in generalities here)
240 posted on
08/10/2009 3:56:02 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
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