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by rajekas
2137 days ago
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To be honest, I don't know what it would mean to rehabilitate a twelfth century Archbishop. What kind of saint could he become? Surely not a religious saint when religiosity is declining and sainthood is suspect. Not a secular saint either, for he doesn't have the marks of 21st century secular sainthood: lack of ego, public spirit, concern for justice etc. The only option I can see: his resistance to state power and unwillingness to escape his fate brings him close to Socrates, so perhaps there's that route. If only he had a great prose stylist as a student. Of the various Catholic halomakers I know (and I don't many, being neither a Catholic nor a saint), only St. Francis comes across as a straightforward candidate for contemporary sainthood. Even the very highest levels of human achievement are historically conditioned and might appear to later generations as idolatry. |
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Are you talking about the UK specifically? The world as a whole is more religious than ever: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/27/religion-why-is...
> And while the religiously unaffiliated currently make up 16% of the global population, only about 10% of the world’s newborns were born to religiously unaffiliated mothers between 2010 and 2015.
> China has seen a huge religious revival in recent years and some predict it will have the world’s largest Christian population by 2030. The number of Chinese Protestants has grown by an average of 10 % annually since 1979, to between 93 million and 115 million, according to one estimate. There are reckoned to be another 10-12 million Catholics.