By definition someone for whom religion or spirituality is intensely personal is going to avoid talking to you about it. The fact that that in all the conversations about religion you have ever had, no-one has declined to participate on those grounds is hardly evidence that these people don’t exist.
Hmmm, methinks you are moderately wrong about religious organisations being on the wrong side of ‘every’ moral issue in American history. You’ve heard of the Quakers—funny hats, oatmeal, social justice and all that.
I just don’t see modern secular churches (ok so maybe you don’t have those in the USA yet...) like the Anglicans as a major force for irrationality. When they bump up against science there are a few protests and then they cede ground, and explain any contradictions between scripture and reality by admitting scripture is mostly just stories.
By definition someone for whom religion or spirituality is intensely personal is going to avoid talking to you about it. The fact that that in all the conversations about religion you have ever had, no-one has declined to participate on those grounds is hardly evidence that these people don’t exist.
Hmmm, methinks you are moderately wrong about religious organisations being on the wrong side of ‘every’ moral issue in American history. You’ve heard of the Quakers—funny hats, oatmeal, social justice and all that.
I just don’t see modern secular churches (ok so maybe you don’t have those in the USA yet...) like the Anglicans as a major force for irrationality. When they bump up against science there are a few protests and then they cede ground, and explain any contradictions between scripture and reality by admitting scripture is mostly just stories.