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A New Phase of Civilization
Human civilization has staggered and lunged through many phases and sub-phases.
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Now, anthropologists have hatched a new label, the Anthropocene Epoch, for the latest period when mushrooming humanity and fossil fuel burning have altered the planet’s biosphere and climate.
Amid all this chaos of history, I think another growing phase of civilization can be detected: The Secular Age – the death of religion – the disappearance of supernatural gods, devils, heavens, hells and the like. Miracles and prophecies no longer are treated seriously in advanced western democracies. They’re ignored with amusement, like old wives’ tales.
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A major researcher lists multiple reasons: Revulsion by young liberals against the sanctimonious partnership between bigoted white evangelicals and America’s Republican Party. Revulsion by nearly everyone, including Catholics, against child molesting by priests. Revulsion by nearly everyone, including Muslims, against hideous massacres by volunteer suicide “martyrs.” Rising prosperity and better living conditions that make affluent, educated people no longer need supernatural promises of heaven.
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