This explanation of what actually weakened the plausibility of spiritual faith is both overwhelming and underwhelming. On the one hand, it is sobering to acknowledge how much religion’s legitimacy in the Western world has severely declined. On the other hand, the assertion that the decline is caused not by the antagonistic forces of intellectual skepticism, unbounded hedonism or flagrant “godlessness,” but by the banality of efficiency and productivity is an even more chilling observation to consider. It seems we ignore the idolatrous power of “being practical” to our own peril—both personally
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