The Bad Religion Of Capitalism

How we went from worshiping the sacred to the profane

The church I was wed in, in the shadow of luxury condos and covered in bank advertising

In Religion In Human Evolution, Robert Bellah says “Religion is a system of beliefs and practices relative to the sacred that unite those who adhere to them in a moral community.” Modern, ‘educated’, consumers don’t live in such a religious community, but we still live in community of belief. To paraphrase Bellah…