Another interesting Baudrillard comment on religion & America:
It is not by chance that it is the Mormons who run the world's biggest computerization project: the recording of twenty generations of living souls....Evangelization [has] progressed thanks to the latest memory-storage techniques. And these have been made possible by the deep puritanism of computer science, an intensely Calvinistic, Presbyterian discipline, which has inherited the universal and scientific rigidity of the techniques for achieving salvation by good works. The Counter-Reformation methods of the Catholic Church, with its naive sacramental practices, its cults, its more archaic and popular beliefs, could never compete with this modernity."
Au Contraire! It is our bishops, not beliefs, that are undermining the faith at the present moment. (end of cheap shot).
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