{"id":83,"date":"2014-01-28T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:13:26","slug":"brooks-on-religious-experience-and-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Brooks on religious experience and representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Brooks_New-articleInline.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Brooks_New-articleInline.jpg?w=747&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">I think that the disparity between actual religious experience and its representation does great damage to our national discourse. David Brooks does a good job of looking at one aspect of this disparity.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">There is a strong vein of hostility against orthodox religious believers in America today, especially among the young. When secular or mostly secular people are asked by researchers to give their impression of the devoutly faithful, whether Jewish, Christian or other, the words that come up commonly include \u201cjudgmental,\u201d \u201chypocritical,\u201d \u201cold-fashioned\u201d and \u201cout of touch.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"line-height: 17.940000534057617px;\">It\u2019s not surprising. There is a yawning gap between the way many believers experience faith and the way that faith is presented to the world.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;\">Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/19YQk0U\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I think that the disparity between actual religious experience and its representation does great damage to our national discourse. 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