Secularism is a worldview that wishes and aims to abolish religion from public life and, if it can succeed, from private life also.

Richard Dawkins wants to stop religious people having the “privilege of access to the levers of power and to the megaphones of influence”. He has also called teaching Christianity to one’s own children “child abuse”.

So what does secularism have to offer? It has failed to counteract the religious extremism of aggressive Islam. Given such failure, even Richard Dawkins has opted for “cultural Christianity”, possibly also realising that the multigenderism of the so-called Woke movement is going too far for his liking. At least he has recently resigned from the board of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), following independently in the footsteps of Steven Pinker and Jerry Coyne and who accused the FFRF of imposing an ideology with the “dogma, blasphemy, and heretics” of a religion. The genie is out of the bottle and how will secularism control this crazy post-modern ideology? I pointed this out years ago and G. K. Chesterton said even longer ago: “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

Secularism has failed to contain the violence on the streets of Britain, the fruition of the permissive 1960s.

Secularism has enabled a free-for-all post-modernism to permeate public life, shifting the goalposts of Judeao-Christian morality.

Secularism has failed public life and is promoted by ideologues who think that there is no God.

Secularism is an international worldview, just like socialism is, just as Christianity is, just as islam is. What makes national leaders think that these can live at peace with one another in the same nation?

I return to the title of this blog post – What does secularism have to offer? What does the world without religion have to offer? How will it be achieved, without massive indoctrination and possibly persecution? The violent history of mankind is testimony to the difficulty secularism will have in abolishing religion from the world.

How much better to acknowledge that false religion competes against true religion. Indeed, secularism is itself a false religion which imitates Christianity in many ways.

So if we must have religion, which will it be? How about following and promoting the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ?

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18 Apr 2017: the deficiencies of atheism.