In our chaotic age, some atheists are rethinking secularism

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In our chaotic age, some atheists are rethinking secularism

It is 80 years since C.S. Lewis delivered the lectures that were eventually to be published as his remarkable book The Abolition of Man. I place it in the same category as Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons, Wilhelm Reich’s The Sexual Revolution, and Philip Rieff’s The Triumph of the Therapeutic; Uses of Faith after Freud volumes whose authors could not possibly have known just how prophetically accurate their analysis of human life would prove to be.

And all of them also share something else: At the core of their arguments, the point of real contention is the question of what it means to be a human being. Lewis pinpointed this as the key issue in the 1940s. In 2023, it is still the key question, only now it is far more complicated and of far more immediate political significance than Lewis could ever have anticipated.

The trans moment is the supreme symptom of this. Enabled by the incredible technological innovations of the last 50 years, which have allowed us to think of humanity as something that can and will be transcended, it has brought the fundamental question of what it means to be human to the fore. And in doing so, it is disrupting the political landscape in ways that could not have been imagined even 10 years ago, particularly on the left.

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