“By secularism I don’t mean some derogatory term. I mean that there is no public core religion. That’s what I mean for the most part.”
Interview by Rev. Chris Gordon
Dr. Stephen Wolfe
Interview by Rev. Chris Gordon
The idea that we have ever lived under “Secularism,” as defined as living without a public core religion, is a myth of massive proportions.
What people call “Secularism” in the West was instead that space of time where we were in transition moving from an overt Christian society/culture informed by the Christian religion to an overt Humanist society/culture informed by the Humanist religion.
These last 80 years, or so, have been kind of a twilight religious existence where Christianity has been descending in the West and Humanism has been ascending. The non-epistemologically self-conscious people that have lived in this twilight of transition have mistaken this transition as being a thing called “Secularism.” Nothing could be further from the truth since culture is always animated by one religion or another. Indeed, if there were no religion as the animating factor in culture there would be no culture.
