Did the Puritan work ethic work itself to death?
I’ve seen an Atlantic article pop up in my feed sometimes, and I don’t have a subscription so I can’t read the article, but the little summary suggests that one of the primary reasons people are leaving the church is that the average person is too busy with work to have time or energy for communities that aren’t directly related to furthering their own careers or the career prospects of their kids. It also uses the term “workism”, which apparently was also coined by the Atlantic a few years ago to describe people getting their identity and purpose from their jobs rather than from things like religion. There are, of course, other reasons – the obvious absence of a good god in an increasingly shitty world, and the ever-increasing hypocrisy of Christianity’s loudest fanboys, being near the top of the list – but this definitely is a valid point. Even back when I WANTED to attend church regularly, I was often working weekend side hustles, or recovering from working overtime, and j...