Quote Originally Posted by Monty92 View Post
I know what you're getting at.

But I just think that the decline of religion took place without anyone making any contingencies for what would replace it for the majority of humans who are psychologically weak and need something simplistic and comforting to give their lives meaning.

And so it ended up being replaced by the fundamentalist religion of progressivism.
"Religion" is doing better than ever, I thought? #Islam

Anyway, it has merely been replaced by money, and latterly "work", which is far more dangerous, imo. But that's what the psychologically weak who need something simplistic and comforting to give their lives meaning have chosen instead. "Science" gave us the pill and the rest will be history.