E8: E8: Comedian Andrew Heaton says church is dead, America found new gods

What does a post-God country look like? Look around, Q-Anon and Critical Race Theory didn’t come from nowhere.This week on “Right Now with Stephen Kent,” Stephen is joined by guest political comedian Andrew Heaton and co-host Shoshana Weissmann to discuss the decline in participation in religion over the generations, how politics are reshaping the religion definition, why we look at Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden with such reverence, and why the Conservative, Democrat, and Libertarian parties are serving as new spiritual homes for the formerly faithful.---- Content of This Episode ---- 00:00​​ Episode Start00:07 Losing our religion, finding another outlet02:39 Meet Andrew Heaton, funny person who likes to think03:56 Shifting religious impulses09:14 Rejecting dogma in religion but not politics13:20 Faith in Q-Anon16:35 The last straw for Stephen & Andrew19:52 Political worship22:38 We separated church & state – or did we?24:00 The rise of determinism29:45 Losing faith in institutions34:07 Resurgence of civil society---- Reading List ----U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time (Gallup)https://news.gallup.com/poll/341963/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspxAmerica Without God (The Atlantic)https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/america-politics-religion/618072/America Is Losing Its Religion (Axios)https://www.axios.com/americans-less-religious-gallup-poll-3a7fa738-a431-45a9-8185-44267c49d19d.htmlThe Political Orphanage: Politics As the New Religion with Caleb O. Brownhttps://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/politics-as-the-new-religion-with-caleb-o-brownThe Conservative Sensibility by George F. Willhttps://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/george-f-will/the-conservative-sensibility/9780316480932/How Did Americans Lose Faith in Everything? by Yuval Levin (The New York Times)https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/opinion/sunday/institutions-trust.html---- Plugs for our Guest ----Follow Andrew Heaton on Twitter:https://twitter.com/MightyHeaton