Furthermore, a whole belief system may be found wanting if its methods do not move it effectively toward satisfying its own purpose. There is a postmodern consciousness emerging in society today. More and more, people are finding it impossible to shut out everything that does not confirm their own preferred beliefs. The current generation no longer knows what it is to take religion for granted. The days when people were christened, married, and buried in their parents' church are long gone.
Religion is now a market commodity, offered in dozens of channels like a cable-TV subscription.
We've become jaded and skeptical of hawkers who advertise the ultimate answer, and deliver only bigoted disconnection from the rest of humanity. Seekers weary of the religious ratings war find UU churches, hopeful that we have some quality programming. One religion cannot satisfy all varieties of people. Religious pluralism is extremely relevant. Different religions constitute different approaches altogether.