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Date/Time 29 Dec 2014 4:24:37pm
"They each express, whether by means of forceful critique or tacit concession, that secularism and its cultural-political counterpart, liberalism, have run out of their own resources"

That's... an awful lot of words to say that you managed to twist the themes in certain books to support your own preconceived ideas about the world. This opinion piece sounds a little like the church of ages past repeating "Gallileo is wrong, Gallileo is wrong, Gallileo is wrong" over and over hoping that in repetition it becomes true.

It's fine to argue that books in 2012 were yearning for a "shared moral substance". From what I've read, books in 1012 were yearning for the same thing. They didn't seem to get it from religion then and I fail to see why you can argue we'd get it from religion now.

Relationships are just as hard and people are just as flawed now as ever. And looking back over the last 6000 years, people struggled with issues of meaningful sexual relationships and the yearning for freedom versus the benefits of commitment as much then as they do now. Since secularism hasn't changed that, I fail to see how rejecting it is the solution.