The demand function in religion

ARTICLE: Americans Surprisingly Flexible About Religion and Faith, By DAN HARRIS and WONBO WOO, ABC News, Dec. 10, 2009

Essential truth about America's competitive religious landscape: we change religions more than anybody else on the planet, and we mix-and-match more too.

As we represent the future of globalization (I believe), this tells you that, in the future religion becomes more demand-centric than supply-centric.

And I think that is very good.

(Thanks: Andrew Stewart)

Comments

[Andrew Stewart]

Pardon my foray into sci-fi nerdom here, but this reminds me of the evolution of religions in Frank Herbert's Dune series. Basically, the various world religious follow a course of interweaving into several hybrid sects. Some of these include Zenshiism, Zensunnism Catholics, Zensufi, Mahayana Christianity, Navachristianity, Third Islam.

[Elmer Humes]

Amen brother...we keep evolving just like in the early 1800's as Daniel Walker Howe wrote about in "What has God Wrought"!

[Gilbert Garza]

My priest (Catholic) would probably say, “Dabble in other choices: dress, music, books, sports, jobs, careers, communities, etc, but be faithful exclusively to one spouse (if married) and to one religion--all of your life-- because you recognize that in these you have found everlasting/Eternal Meaning Worth and Love.” Yes father.