After a millennium of checkered existence, religion as we know it is finally running out of gas... thank god.
Today, the number of people who affiliate themselves with a specific religious denomination is declining across the globe. This broad-based trend is gathering speed regardless of race, gender, religion, or economic status. People are realizing that the simple answers provided by their Iron Age beliefs no longer adequately address the more complex questions raised by our expanding knowledge of the universe.
Wikipedia mistakenly refers to this group as Irreligion or the "nones" while Pew Research calls them the Unaffiliated, for lack of a better word. Compounding the confusion, the media struggles to define this ever-expanding horde as evident by their tendency to lump them into the same pigeon-hole as atheists (which they find abhorrent) and agnostics (which they are definitely not). The phrase "spiritual but not religious" has been drained of any relevance due to the masses inability to articulate any basic beliefs or orthodoxy.
The purpose of this book is to give name to the growing numbers of us who no longer believe in organized religion but have a deep faith in a divine purpose. The term for this spirituality without religion is "Post-Theological."
Post-Theological faith is the unshakeable belief in a unifying extra-universal spirituality or force that is the source of all (call it god, if you must). Critical to Post-Theological faith is understanding that this astral force is extra-universal, meaning that he/she/it exists outside of our observable, quantifiable universe and therefore beyond human ability to comprehend. This makes any attempt to describe or define it useless – even to argue whether it exists or not is pointless, let alone think we can know which day of the week it wants us to go to church.
