Upon our culture's transcendental morality

I don’t understand why theists feel the need for everyone else to be in lockstep. Why can’t they follow whatever precepts of faith help them, and leave those who don’t want to participate alone ? 😳

“Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned — I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture or necrodestination.”
— Frank Zappa

As great as JP can be, atheism isnt always a denial of transcendence or lack of spiritualism, and its unfair of him, and untrue to make such a comment, and silly to base a whole theory on it.

(Take Buddhists for example, they dont believe in God, but believe in enlightenment of ones consciousness).

As to condemming others for their opinion, while touting ones own as better, is kinda doing the very thing youre offended at.🤷‍♀️

But then, freedom of speech is a human right, isnt it.

Plus its a wonderful thing to exercise our choice of what we listen to . From which we get to choose what we believe, what we respond to, what we take in, and what we let go.

And as to 'forcing thought', this is what true independent thinking is: its allowing all ideas and facts to be looked at, weighed, analysed amd thought through....its forcing oneself to think for oneself and not be led by doctrine, common opinion or selective opinion or denial.

Forcing thought is what has made mankind come so far with science, invention, medicine, creativity and understanding a world and universe bigger than ourselves.

If we never forced thought, we'd have to rely on chance for our advancement as a species, which would be devastating.

As a species with heightened consciousness, isnt it our duty to force thought? - push our knowledge? - strive for better understanding?

Isnt being able to force thought the one gift above all other species we were given ?
As you said....thinking is a great thing to do .

There's an automatic assumption here, though, even though the author may not see his bias. From a lover of Dvotsovesky, Cohen, who put spirituality holy, if we lead ourselves to a place where questions are not allowed, seems to set up what you are complaining about? I'm sorry to say, the pendulum just swings, and swings. We are just in a time of new cultural understandings, new science, new materialism, and I'm sorry to say they don't all relate together, and thus another mystery is created.