Secularism a weakened guardrail

After Jan. 6, secularism is the crucial "guardrail" — and it's fatally weak in America https://t.co/nRv93RntrI

— Jacques Berlinerblau (@berlinerblau) January 7, 2022

...Far from being equivalent to atheism, as its critics allege, secularism's origins may be traced to medieval Christian disputes about the papacy's expanding powers. During the Protestant Reformation, the terms of the debate shifted. The dilemma no longer involved curtailing the authority of the church, but rather how a government could prevent unfathomable violence between churches. Enlightenment thinkers concluded that religions — those force-multipliers of human passions — needed to be governed...