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Podcast: Sacrilegious Discourse - Bible Study for Atheists
Episode: Religion Is “Declining”… So Why Does It Feel Like It’s Everywhere?
Description: Turns out the importance of religion is allegedly dropping “dramatically across the world”… which is both comforting and deeply annoying when you live in the U.S. Midwest and can’t walk outside without tripping over a church (or a Fox News-powered moral panic). In this episode, we dig into a study/press release from Professor Dr. Detlef Pollock (University of Münster) claiming global secularization is accelerating, even surprising the researchers themselves. But here’s the problem: while religiosity may be declining globally, religion’s political volume is cranked to 11. We unpack how religion gets supercharged when it’s fus...