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What Does It Mean to Live in a Secular Age? - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Well, religion, I feel, is doctrine and tradition, genuflecting, and you have to do things this way. " (pg. 508)
      - "...that is the authority claims by churches which see it as their mandate to preempt the search, …” (pg. 508)
  - - - "They are seeking a kind of unity and wholeness of the self, a reclaiming of the place of feeling, against the one-sided..” (pg. 507)
      - "Spirituality is an inner feeling, an allowance of however you perceive it in your world, in your mind , and however it feels is okay..." (pg.508)
    - - "Finding out about oneself, expressing oneself, discovering one’s own way of becoming all that one can…is opposed to denying or sacrificing oneself for the sake of a super-self order of things" (pg. 509)
      - "Spirituality is an inner feeling, an allowance of however you perceive it in your world, in your mind , and however it feels is okay…spirituality, I think, is what enters you and lifts you up and moves you to be a better person, a more open person" (pg. 508)
- - - - Having choices has the highest value and priority. The more choices we have, the happier we are.
        
        It is the highest expression of freedom and highest expression of authenticity. It is the model for happiness.
        
        "Expressions like do your own thing become current…be yourself in the world of today…therapies multiply to find yourself, realize yourself, release your true self and so on…”"
  - - - "But we have also changed from a condition in which belief was the default option, not just for the naïve but also for those who knew, considered, talked about atheism; to a condition in which for more and more people unbelieving construal seem at first blush the only plausible ones” (pg. 12)