Oct. 25, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| The book is I rigorously did not make the case for religion in general or Christianity in particular as being socially expedient and useful. | |
| The book is about me trying to come to my own beliefs about the truth value of religion. | |
| But the question you have raised is, I'll just say very briefly, we have watched an experiment going on in Europe now for the last several decades of advanced societies that are effectively secular. | |
| Europe and Canada, I'll just mention. | |
| Yes, and Canada. | |
| In human history, there has never been an advanced society that was secular the way that Europe is now. | |
| And I will antagonize some viewers, maybe get supported by others when I say I think the results are very troubling. | |
| There are all sorts of secular humanists who live lives that are as virtuous as any Christians or Jews, but I think that secular humanism has a real problem in that it has no bedrock, it has no bottom. | |
| And it's very easy to get on slippery slopes when there is not a bedrock underneath it, as I believe there is for the great religious traditions. | |
| And I think the effects of that slippery slope are visible now. | |
| Well, I'll just take one example, as we look at a policy that I initially supported, physician-assisted suicide, because it seemed to make sense to me. | |
| And it still makes sense to me, except that we have seen that slippery slope produce some very disturbing results. | |
| And I would say that similar policies related to crime and a variety of other institutions suggest that secular societies do not have a lot of staying power. | |
| I am not optimistic about the long-term prospects for Europe, and increasingly not for the United States, except Jan, the evidence of, guess what? | |
| A whole lot of American intellectuals seem to suddenly have found religion. | |
| I mean, in some cases, they are people who have long-standing commitments to it, like Ross Dothet and David Brooks and others. | |
| But there are lots of newcomers to professing, in most cases, Christianity, and still others who are speaking respectfully of religion in ways that they didn't before. |
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