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I have to agree with @nomoney in that it disturbs me to see that the new arbiters of morality are the public school system, universities, the talking heads of mainstream media, and Hollywood. It seems to me that a lot of people with no conventional religion have become de facto members of a new religion, what I call the Religion of Social Justice or the Religion of Political Correctness. These people are obviously hungry for spiritual guidance, and are getting it from the new priests: the social justice warriors and political correctness arbiters, grade school and high school teachers, college professors, the talking heads on TV, celebrities, pop stars, etc. People are looking to movies and TV shows and Twitter for moral guidance. This is what the actors on Glee did, so that must be the morally correct thing to do.
Religion fills a need and a void in people, or we wouldn’t see evidence of religion spanning the world over thousands of years. I am sorry though that the new, all-encompassing, all-conquering religion is the the Religion of Social Justice & Political Correctness. I am sorry to see that the new priest class consists of your child’s public school teacher, your teen’s college professor, and TV personalities such as Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Samantha Bee, the cast of Saturday Night Live, etc.
