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"It follows," wrote Harvey Wheeler, formerly senior fellow of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, "that a death of God era is also a god-building era ....
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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Our time is one of the most religious periods in all history, a time in which god-building is taking place at a dizzying pace. "
Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981
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"God-Building was an idea proposed by some prominent Marxists of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party which proved to be very controversial. It was inspired by Ludwig Feuerbach's 'religion of humanity' and had some precedent in the French Revolution with the 'cult of reason'. The idea consisted of the notion that in place of the abolition of religion, there should be a meta-religious context in which religions were viewed primarily in terms of the psychological and social effect of ritual, myth, and symbolism, and which attempted to harness this force for pro-communist aims, both by creating new ritual and symbolism, as well as re-interpreting existing ritual and symbolism in a socialist context. In contrast to the atheism of Lenin, the God Builders took an official position of agnosticism." --Wikipedia
November 11, 2016