“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Mark Twain.

God is dead

Well, no.

Not yet and probably never, quite.

But his grip on the learned world, based on force, has long since been relaxed and his grip on pop culture, based on subservient law, has recently also been pretty much broken.

It is interesting to see how things are changing, especially in regards to sex and the prevalent moral outlook on it and everything related to it, as a result.

The Christian churches and their clergy and theologians used to be the uncontested and incontestable authorities on morals in the West.

But all along they mostly made it stick with coercion and bloody repression of dissent.

Take away the force  . . . .

Hence the constant complaints of the Christians about permissiveness, immorality, and the decadence of the entire Occident.