Secularism, changes in 'christianity' in the US. I'm not some christian nationalist but I do believe changes in values allowed Amazon to do this. Maybe I'm wrong and people will end up going against this in the long term. The 'christian' view of this behaviour didn't come from a vacuum. My biggest worry is the passivity/docile nature of people nowadays can't bring such change.

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HumanOstrich 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Looking at it through a religious lens is pretty narrow-minded. Secular people have values too. You're limiting your ability to understand the world around you.

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boelboel a minute ago | parent | next [-]

Some secular people have values, I don't think religious people are saints. Secular people however don't have a framework to 'force' others with supposed values to adhere to them. I don't believe it's narrow minded to believes changes in religion might have an effect on things, the way people follow their religion is influenced by external factors, don't see why it wouldn't be the other way around as well. Atheists are quite new we'll see what happens.

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R_D_Olivaw an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I would reckon looking at these kinds of things through religious lenses is actually VERY useful.

I don't follow sportsball, but there are masses of population and massive institutions that are built upon for and on sportsball.

So, seeing large changes or shifts within sportsball can be useful in gleaning some sort of trend.

While, I don't fully follow the gp comment, I can see the other side of yours.

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HumanOstrich an hour ago | parent [-]

It's more like following astrology - entirely irrelevant to reality.

	▲	R_D_Olivaw 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Your comment is entirely irrelevant to most of the human beings on this planet. And yet, you took the time to type it out. And will even spend some time defending it, proposing it. Narrow worldviews have utility to one, but don't encompass "reality" as such.

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SoftTalker 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. (John Adams)