But if secularists hoped that declining religiosity would make for more rational politics, drained of faith’s inflaming passions, they are likely disappointed. [theatlantic.com] “perhaps alone among all contemporary civilizations, America regards reality as an enemy to be defeated.”
The only tolerable excuse for religion is the weak argument that religions introduced rudimentary humanitarian concepts that could evolve into fully developed atheistic humanitarianism.
It’s the best they got.