I don't know where this belongs. If it does not belong in this group, Jeffrey, or other mod, feel free to delete. No hard feelings and my mistake.
The notion is that if the West is going to survive, we need to replace Christianity with a unifying culture which is more durable. I believe that I'm not alone in feeling a threat to our civilization. One can notice these things without becoming intolerant of "phobic".
I do realize that society is corrupt. This is true, but we all live in the world, and many (not all) in the West.
Here's some fragments of a solution:
"Making a pilgrimage to modern-day Norcia, Dreher visits contemporary Benedictines and investigates those practices that have sustained them throughout the centuries—and that the modern church might emulate. In monasticism, Dreher sees the seeds for resistance and rebirth—attentiveness to one's community through the disciplines of liturgy, prayer, community, work, asceticism, and stability. Only a church responsive to its own disciplined identity will survive the times. In short, for the church to have a chance at external witness, the church must first remedy itself internally."
"Christians must "create and support 'parallel structures' in which the truth can be lived in community." He is also practical in offering practices that contradict the reigning zeitgeist—among them, attentiveness to the role of technology in children's lives and an emphasis on the importance of Christian education for Christian cultural renaissance."
I think that the same can be true for Buddhists and contemplatives. After all, I'm happy to live in a religiously plural society which allows me to practice as I see fit. I'd like this culture to continue after I die.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/one-mans-prescription-for-a-post-christian-culture/article/2007084?custom_click=rss?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=TWSAutoTweet
