Cognitive surplus and religion - a thinking blogonaut writes

Nice musings on this blog about 'cognitive surplus', which is a theory put out by Clay Shirky that we have all been stupefied for half a century by the telly and are now waking up and thinking for ourselves.   Blog muses:   "I wonder if there isn't something similar happening in the church. For a good while now churches have been seen as religious vendors, giving people what they need spiritually, offering a form of entertainment that can be taken in passively, etc. But there are quite a few people that are realising that this has led to a sort of collective spiritual stupor. And when people come out of this stupor, what you find is people not wanting a passive, received religion, but a spirituality that they are a part of..."

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