Toward Ecosophy

Talked to an old friend recently who said, basically, that while he was still completely agnostic and had no use for religion personally, he was looking for a church to join. Why? So his kid could have a more normal peer group, basically. He feels outgunned and outnumbered trying to raise a child in a toxic culture, says kid keeps coming home with these weird nihilistic ideas, garbage pop culture, etc. that seems quite malevolent and he doesn't feel like he has anything in his personal philosophical arsenal to push back with. The only thing he can think of to resist it is church (a thing he rejected in adolescence and has never looked back on). He's looking for a cultural umbrella to shelter his kid under. I wished him luck. I don't have a lot of confidence it'll work out, but here's hoping.

It's intriguing to me that this is the reflexive response of one of the most areligous people I know. I can only imagine what it's like for anybody who has even an *inkling* of spiritual inclination, facing the same thing.