Reply #81: Religion is declining amongst the 1st world educated elite for one reason and one reason only [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Materialism.

This is the same reason religion declines in importance in all wealthy civilizations in decline: Rome in 200-300s, Florence after the Plague, etc.

No bones about it. Some lefties are dialectical materialists and embrace this phenomenon. Others are postmodernists and embrace the phenomenon. Either way, they are embracing the notion of a technocratic global elite putting themselves above everyone else and preaching revealed truth to the masses, just like the priestly elite did before. Only the revealed truth of postmodernism is quite simple: Don't Question My Beliefs. It's a great inocculation against more traditional forms of leftism and since most atheists on the left have abandoned Marxism for either postmodernism (cf. Postmodernism and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism) or a retrograde modernism (cf. the monstrous worship of technology that is RE-emerging among the global elite in the world's cities, 40 years after Allen Ginsburg wrote "Moloch".)