Is Traditional Religion Doomed?

You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show. Today's episode is on religion, the decline of religion. In fact, let me by before I introduce my guests, let me give you a little bit of background on this. As you know, I've written Several books on this subject, tracked it uh myself uh over the decades.

It's a super important and interesting subject. Two months ago I did a debate uh in Austin uh for the free press where Adam Carolla and I debated Ian Hersey Alley and Ross Dalthit from the New York Times on the subject, does the West need a religious revival? My answer was no, thank you. And that was the end of that for me. But um

Interestingly, Iann Hersi Alley made the argument that the West needs religion, particularly Christianity, in order to um as a bulwark against Islamism, crazy far-left wokeism, and so on. And Ross Doutha made a similar argument in that the kind of moral foundations of Western civilization, even broader, uh, uh is the Judeo-Christian worldview. And without that, there's a God-shaped hole is kind of the argument they made, that will be filled by something else. And that something else could be, you know, again, Islamism or or crazy woke far-left progressive politics or new age spiritualism or whatever.

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