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[–]Complicated-Spirit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)

I read a fascinating book on the failure of secularism when I was in college. I cannot remember the title or who wrote it and it’s driving me crazy. But it theorized that secular societies are basically artificial ones, who will still believe in the same things as religious societies, they will simply re-frame them in a secular context. Even Revolutionary France did not give women the right to vote, and still punished women for being too brazen. They simply switched from “It’s God’s plan” to “It’s Nature and cannot be changed”.

And there’s also the observation of society drifting without a religious identity, and needing to fill that “hole”. Before, we could face prosecution for believing in God the wrong way, or using the wrong words during the church service. Now, we can face prosecution for believing in sex the wrong way, or using the wrong pronouns. People still feel a need to be righteous and right.