Three key situations that developed together during the counterculture movements of the 1960s influenced the future of Buddhism: Hippies, immigration reform, and the ‘scientization’ of psychology into neuroscience.
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Eastern religions were viewed as an escape from the dogmatic Church and hellfire-Christianity.
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“Believers” complain that those godless atheists, bereft of morals, will eventually undermine all that is good in the world. On the other hand, atheists are exasperated by the pandemic of irrationality it seems to grip the minds of whole generations of otherwise sensible people. Failure to exercise the faculty of reason, atheists often claim, leads those misguided communities to fight violently over something that no one can prove anyway.
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