It's a message perfectly tailored for 21st-century America, where the most important religious trend is neither swelling unbelief nor rising fundamentalism, but the emergence of a generalized "religiousness" detached from the claims of any specific faith tradition.
Noam Gonick's "Hey, Happy!," a camp comedy featuring much strong language, drug use, gay sex, full frontal nudity and generalized ridicule of religious beliefs, received support from no fewer than seven government agencies, from the Canada Council for the Arts to Manitoba's Film and Video Production Tax Credit program.
Asylum, however, as defined under the 1951 Geneva Convention, generally involves protection from political, ethnic or religious persecution or, since 2005, generalized violence.
In addition, individual level of generalized trust is associated with less religious and racial prejudice.
But our current political culture doesn't seem to value this behavior, and we are at a low point, casting generalized blame against entire groups — ethnic, religious, political — for the behavior of individuals.
When trying to fudge the religious issues and to assert some more generalized harm to society, proponents have struggled to provide any compelling evidence that extending marriage rights to same-sex couples bears some causal relationship to the diminution of marriage rates among opposite sex couples.
Mean level of generalized trust at the country level is associated with less religious prejudice, whereas it does not have any effect on racial prejudice.
As a result, the romance, long regarded as an archetypal form closely allied with generalized Christian motifs, emerged as a central tenet of the religious controversies that divided Renaissance England.
Some see it as a generalized phenomenon, while others rely on familiar symbolism and refer to religious or cultural belief systems that ally them to a specific spiritual context.
But religious garb, like skin color, does not constitute legitimate grounds for suspicion and generalized smears.
