The market potential
for conservative religion, larger than anyone predicted, is finite and quite possibly on the verge of being reached.
Conservative religions of various sorts remain popular PARTLY because they allow people to project their fears, insecurities and frustrations on others, including threatening them with eternal damnation.
This seems to have entailed a more liberal attitude toward some of the strictures of Jewish law but an appreciation for the sentiments of
conservative religion nonetheless.
Yet the Bill placed them in a cleft stick: make partnerships too close to marriage and risk
alienating conservative religion; or place them too near the spectrum's other end and lose the essential difference between a personal union and a mere contract.
«Part of what is scary
for conservative religions is that as a pagan, I consider myself part of the divine,» says Holli S. Emore, executive director at South Carolina's Cherry Hill Seminary, which has one of the world's first graduate - level programs for pagan ministry.
Maybe it's not really our responsibility to help out a kid whose parents threw him out because of something
their conservative religion taught them (often in error).
The seriously researched comparison has been not to past rearrangements of the religious landscape, but to concurrent growth in «fringe» and
conservative religion.
At the same time, general cultural trends are moving away from
the conservative religion of the immediate past; eventually, conservative churches will face slowly diminishing constituencies.