Links for 04/11/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The belief in the death of God is very Hegelian - a natural outcome of religious freedom and the loss of religious authority and power as the main driver of western culture. As to the practical atheists, some pews are still full of those who believe in the belief in God, rather than believing in God directly. Of course, many don't believe in that need to conform, unless they are raising small children, so they simply stay home on Sunday morning. God the Ogre is still alive and well in conservative Catholicism, although I am not sure that the adherents to such a view really believe in God. While there are Christian Humanists who do not believe, most Christian Humanists do. Of course, this requires dropping the belief in a bloody sacrifice to bribe God, replacing it with a vision quest of God seeking to find us, so that we may find him. The fact of the matter is that most penitential regimes are designed to provoke that desperation through which God speaks. Those of us who became desperate through different means do not need such self-abuse.
Kansas is one of those places where you cannot claim to believe that God is dead. Religious authoritarianism, which is part of just plain conservative authoritarianism, is still in vogue - giving you idiots who are out Trumping Trump
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