Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
I think you've totally missed the point of the '60s, C.
Religion had been in sharp decline in the west, certainly in GB, since WW1. We could accept a God who gave us an empire but not one who killed half the seed of Europe one by one in the trenches.
Seance mysticism replaced the CoE post-war as mothers tried to contact their dead sons' spirits.
By post WW2, the CofE was basically not much more than the Tory party at prayer.
Then the '60s came along and we invented the hippy scene with the Beatles going to India and showing that real religion is Vedic and you don't need holy books and priests, you smoke puff like the sadhus and/or bosh acid and Commune with the Divine yourself.
Hippies didn't reject religion, we reinvented it in the west in the same way Rastafarianism did for the blacks in the Carib and then here.
Pwoppa religions, see? God doesn't want you to just have a tiny sip of cheap wine on a Sunday, He wants you to get off your tits all the time the better to know Him.