158 - Paul Kingsnorth - Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture
The Symbolic World
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The Fine or Crumbling of Christendom
I think this is the fine or crumbling of Christendom. Because a culture can't survive without the divine at its center. It's not possible whether it's Christian or otherwise, if you have not got a divine center to your culture, you're going to collapse into nihilism. I don't know if you have this in Canada. We have this phenomenon written for a while called atheist churches. And also there's a US called Harry Potter and the Sacred Text where people will gather in these churches and they'll read Harry Potter almost liturgically then have these come like cosplay.
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