The modern west is currently engaged in a deeply incoherent and, in multiple ways, dangerous experiment. On the one hand, some sectors of our society have chosen to push the old Christian insight about human freedom to absurd lengths. In this view, human beings are radically free–from God, ... More
We have seen in the previous post what was the characteristic of American secularism: the combination of Enlightenment philosophy that saw in the rational world the answer to human problems, as well as tolerance towards the various Christian creeds that made up the colonies. Christianity had been ... More
I recently attended a lecture hosted by the Secular Coalition of America, whose topic proposed to explore the spread of religiosity in American politics. As could be expected from the very name of the group, the discussion turned into a denounciation of the mixing of faith and politics, of church ... More
