Nine decades of secular humanism in my lifetime
Few people realize it, but secular humanism — the progressive crusade to improve life for all — may be the chief driving force of Western civilization. Humanism means helping people, and secular means doing it without supernatural religion. The movement soared three centuries ago in The Enlightenment, when bold thinkers sought to end the divine […]
The Enlightenment gave birth to modern liberalism
The values that later grew into liberalism began stirring in the epoch now known as The Enlightenment, starting more than three centuries ago, chiefly in England and France. It was an era when kings still ruled brutally by “divine right,” and the church still sought to execute “heretics” or jail skeptics for blasphemy. Most people […]
The Enlightenment is still winning
If you study history, you’ll observe episodes that have changed civilization.