Humanism

When I was a boy, I believed that humanism would replace the theistic religions in a fairly short period of time, perhaps within my lifetime.  I based this largely on the growing presence of science in our lives.

We now know, I reasoned, that thunder, disease, and the multiplicity of languages are not the result of God’s displeasure with us.

We’ve figured out that there are approximately 5.5 million species of insects alone, and that penguins did not live in the part of the known world in biblical times, making the story of Noah’s ark highly improbable.

To my dismay, none of this seems to have cut much ice.