Did secular replacements leave a void religion once filled?
Religious institutions have lost their moral authority in the West, but I think the real crisis is that we replaced them with nothing—just vague self-help and corporate wellness. My grandmother's church organized meals for the sick and visited prisoners, while my generation posts a GoFundMe link and feels good about ourselves. Does organized religion actually do more social good than the secular alternatives we've built, or are we just nostalgic for a structure we never experienced? I'm not religious myself, but I wonder if throwing out the baby with the bathwater left a void that algorithms now fill.