After God: The Future of Religion

I feel like I have been lost in the backwoods for the first 25 years of my life and this book has introduced me into the current conversation about God today.

Don Cupitt talks about the current state of religion in our postmodern, global, late-capitalism, multicultural society. He speaks of the 1950’s as the last time of a mono-cultural religion when, “Many people then kept in daily touch with God and the motion of God’s Spirit, rather as one now keeps in touch with the Zeitgeist through the media.”

The media is now where our society gets its identity.

When I went to Brazil in the summer of 2006 all the young people there wanted to talk about was what happened to Marissa at the end of season three of The O.C. That was the one thing we all had in common. It’s crazy but so true.


If I went there today everyone would be saying, " OMFG, Gossip Girl is back, Did you see what S. told B. at the party last night?" That is the world we live in. It is total media saturation. All I want to do is watch The O.C. on my iPhone.

And that is what’s left after God (If you wanted to know).

God is Identity.
Identity is our cultural mythology.
Global mythology is brought to us by the media.

Media is the new God.

“Welcome to the O.C. bitch.”

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