Religion in Moderation
Religion is a subject of personal interpretation. However, the degree to which you chose to follow or not follow religion is influenced by external factors of socialization and the environment around you. Ryan Cragun is the author of What You Don’t Know about Religion (but Should) a book which presents objective data, and subjective analysis and opinion of four groups of religious individuals in regards to factors and topics of the modern world and how the presence or absence of religion relates to these factors. Ryan Cragun is a former devout Mormon now turned non-religious individual who provides feelings on religious fundamentalists, moderates, liberals, and his own non-religious people. Cragun presents his bias and acknowledges it, but he understands two perspectives of the religious spectrum being his past experience with Mormonism and current …show more content…
This knowledge of the two sides being fundamentalists and secularists has given him a unique viewpoint on the two extreme sides, as well as people who fall in-between. Cragun presents the ideals that we as a modern society would be better off with less religion and more of a focus on progressive, tolerant, and educational approaches to modern issues. Cragun doesn’t call for the complete elimination of religion, he just feels the dependence on religion can be lessened and religion practiced with progressive thought processes in mind is a better alternative to fundamentalist practice. Cragun acknowledges the presence of gray matter in religion and asks that if you are a practitioner of religion to also be aware of the gray matter and to practice religion with a liberal mindset. Personally I mostly agree with Cragun and his arguments that our modern society would be better suited with less and more liberal practices of religion, religion like any other piece of knowledge should be used to move us forward as a society and not
Religion is a subject of personal interpretation. However, the degree to which you chose to follow or not follow religion is influenced by external factors of socialization and the environment around you. Ryan Cragun is the author of What You Don’t Know about Religion (but Should) a book which presents objective data, and subjective analysis and opinion of four groups of religious individuals in regards to factors and topics of the modern world and how the presence or absence of religion relates to these factors. Ryan Cragun is a former devout Mormon now turned non-religious individual who provides feelings on religious fundamentalists, moderates, liberals, and his own non-religious people. Cragun presents his bias and acknowledges it, but he understands two perspectives of the religious spectrum being his past experience with Mormonism and current …show more content…
This knowledge of the two sides being fundamentalists and secularists has given him a unique viewpoint on the two extreme sides, as well as people who fall in-between. Cragun presents the ideals that we as a modern society would be better off with less religion and more of a focus on progressive, tolerant, and educational approaches to modern issues. Cragun doesn’t call for the complete elimination of religion, he just feels the dependence on religion can be lessened and religion practiced with progressive thought processes in mind is a better alternative to fundamentalist practice. Cragun acknowledges the presence of gray matter in religion and asks that if you are a practitioner of religion to also be aware of the gray matter and to practice religion with a liberal mindset. Personally I mostly agree with Cragun and his arguments that our modern society would be better suited with less and more liberal practices of religion, religion like any other piece of knowledge should be used to move us forward as a society and not