Unchristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons

“‘Christianity is so predictable,’ one person we interviewed said with contempt. Two-thrids of young outsiders said the faith is boring, a description embraced by one-quarter of young churchgoers as well. The image of being sheltered means the Christian faith seems dull, flat, and lifeless.”

The Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling, by Quentin Smith

“Now the problematical character of this “see-saw” among mutually canceling world-views is not recognized in these moody intuitions themselves, for in each mood it is unthematically and intuitively felt to be the case that the world-whole is the way it appears to be in that mood, and the previous clashing appearances exhibited by the world-whole are tacitly discounted as deceptive appearances. It is not until a moody thinking has ensued wherein I no longer live in, but reflect upon, my moody intuitions that I can recognize the problematic nature of these changing world-views. In the afterglow of one of these mood changes, I can turn back upon and compare the incompatible feelings of intuitive givenness; in this reflective comparison I can recognize that the givenness which is felt in the mood whose afterglow I am experiencing I am experiencing is no different in character than the givenness felt in the incompatible mood I had earlier experienced.”

jerry