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Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus.

Men and women started to worship armstrong dating as soon as they became recognizably human; they created religions at the same time as they created works of art. This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces; these early faiths expressed the wonder and mystery that seem always to have been an essential component of the human experience of this beautiful yet terrifying world.

Like art, religion has been an attempt to find meaning and value in life, despite the suffering that flesh armstrong dating heir to.

Like any other human activity, religion can be abused, but it seems to have been something that we have always done. It was not tacked on to a armstrong dating secular nature by manipulative kings and priests but was natural to humanity.

Indeed, our current secularism is an entirely new experiment, unprecedented in human history. We have yet to see how it will work. It is also true to say that our Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us; like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be cultivated.

Humanism is itself a religion without God—not all religions, of course, are theistic. Our ethical secular ideal has its own disciplines armstrong dating mind and heart and gives people the means of finding faith in the ultimate meaning of human life that were once provided by the more conventional religions.