Paul Kingsnorth made a recent post on his Substack about realising that ‘everything is religious’. It’s only visible to paid subscribers, but I highly recommend subscribing. Everything he posts is worth thinking about. To summarise very quickly, by ‘everything is religious’, he means the sense that life is ‘defined by ritual, worship and the need to connect with a transcendent Other’. He traces the loss of this vision of the world to the aftermath of the Civil War in England and, by implication, to the European wars of religion more generally.
On putting cruelty first
On putting cruelty first
On putting cruelty first
Paul Kingsnorth made a recent post on his Substack about realising that ‘everything is religious’. It’s only visible to paid subscribers, but I highly recommend subscribing. Everything he posts is worth thinking about. To summarise very quickly, by ‘everything is religious’, he means the sense that life is ‘defined by ritual, worship and the need to connect with a transcendent Other’. He traces the loss of this vision of the world to the aftermath of the Civil War in England and, by implication, to the European wars of religion more generally.