07.08.11
Freedom, secularism, and the sacred
The great irony of modern secularists is that the idea of freedom is a metaphysical as that of soul, god, and the rest. So we should batten down the hatches against the point when the Sam Harris type fanatics start to say that freedom is an illusion (as did B.F.Skinner) and that techocrats should override democracy. That’s not a paranoid fear. We can be sure that the world of Big Science is planning this.
The problem was well analyzed by Kant, who found a place for the idea of freedom in the context of science.
And, in general, the realm of the secular is far more than science: it is also the sacred ground for the estabishment of freedom in civilization.
We need to be wary of scientific thugs, so obvious in the Darwin propaganda system with its social darwinist market economics, attempting to establish a kind of theocratic scientism.