"Religion is absolutely helpless, not because of the weakness and the fall of
religion, but because religion has ceased to be the essential term of reference,
the basis of a vision of the world, an evaluation of all these 'wants.'"
He goes on to describe the religious awe of priests and bishops (Orthodox) listening to financial advisors... the precise sort of awe that is missing for religion today. This is all very painful to read because it's so obviously true and then I open Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander and he writes:
"...and we have lost our fundamentally religious view of reality, of being and
truth..."
This after quoting Gandhi who had written about giving up evil no matter the consequences.
Shmemann again:
"...religion does not have such an indispensible place anymore..."
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