The Collapse of Cultural Catholicism

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

If true, RIP cultural Catholicism, FF.

I wonder if this has to do with the jettisoning of anything worth taking cultural pride in in many Catholic parishes in favor of hand-raising and Marty Haugen 'music'.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I doubt seeing as how "cultural Catholics" don't go to Mass.

One can take vague pride in or maintain a vague sense of continuity with something one doesn't personally do.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Yes, I know. It's worth asking what makes that worthy of a radical break and totum simul repudiation now, though, when previously such things were dealt with through 'normal' lapsing-but-continuing-to-feel-a-vague-connection. I don't think it's at all unreasonable to speculate about ways Catholic culture might have [Inks]ed up, since this is about people leaving, you know, cultural Catholicism.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And that's the only logical way for religion to work.

I mean not according to most reputable sociologists but whatever.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

And that's the only logical way for religion to work.

I mean not according to most reputable sociologists but whatever.

I have a feeling the woman who frequently preaches at my church who has a PhD in Sociology would disagree...

She's free to disagree, but she's likely aware that in sociology of religion the idea that religion (usually) operates or ought to operate entirely separately from and orthogonally to family and cultural background is extremely atypical.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Yes, I'm in agreement with you on that.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

No.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

I don't know much about the sociology surrounding subcultural groups that operate without reference to transgenerational cultural transmission or the family unit, so I can't really answer this question.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

That's honestly the only real conclusion I can see from this type of thought process though,

That's because you have trouble with nuance.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

BRTD, I go to anime conventions. It's not that I don't understand having those parts in one's identity, it's that I don't understand them sociologically. Yet.