What's te "Next Big Thing" in Religion

Social change in the most interesting topic known to man. Where have we been, where are we going? Every time something new pops up it's fun to poke into it to see what it's about. One is called the Druid Fellowship. While it is a tiny Pagan group its thinking has some potential. It intends to tell people, "If you feel you don't fit in, we're your group." 

When I was first a mayor so many decades ago, one of the many things I was surprised about were the people who stopped me on the street or came by to visit who seems like very prominent and well liked in the city but had something they wanted to tell me. It was that they wanted to be accepted by their group but were always pushed aside for its most prominent positions.

The first mystery was why they felt the need to tell me, of all people, this? Did they tell this to every mayor because the position of mayor held some kind of authority? Or, did I attract them in some way as a person who could help them with their troubles? Eventually it dawned on me that the common self-perception of not being accepted is used to market all kinds of things from toothpaste to religion. The Drud Pagans are right there on it. 

I'm sure readers know the commonly held view that Trump's appeal is partly due to a section of society who feels they got a bad deal while everyone else won. 

This ever-present feeling of people they are on the outside looking in seems like a potential for a new wave of passionate political and/or religious forces. I wish I knew what it is going to be. 


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