Week 8 Christian Ho

For this week's reading it deals with the obstacles western civilization has set up to prevent future generations to be more in tune with spirituality. In all parts of this world there seems to be a divide among people who are more in touch with secularism rather spirituality. One of the key differences between these people is the amount of modernization or influences of technology has on people. Residents in within the more rural areas tend to focus more on the spiritual aspects of life to move on with their life, while those in the more industrialized are more influenced by secular beliefs or science to proceed with their life. Since there is more of an emphasis of technology and its influence on this world most people tend to believe in science to explain the world and its questions. As show in the spiritually in the academy reclaiming from the margin article with the authors trying to explain to his grandfather how people in France or Germany believe in science to answer question such why it rains or how plants grow from the ground. This also connects to the idea of denying one's culture because of the upbringing they had, they lose touch with their spiritual ancestor. The same is applied within the United States as spirituality is not as popular to believe, rather the younger generations are taught about life through science and math. But if move to certain aspects within the U.S. such as the deep south or rural areas not influenced by the secular world, one can see this increased amount of people relying on spirituality or religion to help guide them. I can kind of understand in terms of the U.S. why spirituality wasn't emphasized as much, but nowadays what exactly is the harm of allowing the future generations to be exposed to spirituality? 
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