Secularism Suffers Sanctity Saturation
On Robin Hanson, David Wolpe, and the Paganism of Postmodernity
I enjoyed listening to Robin Hanson and Rabbi David Wolpe discuss the sacred. Hanson, a social scientist, treats the sacred primarily as a human phenomenon. Rabbi Wolpe, following Rudolf Otto, defends the sacred as a human response to something genuinely other. God is real, not merely a tool for social cohesion or fulfillment. At the ground level, socia…
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