Sep 13, 2024
I'd say, rather, that underneath mainstream naturalism is our existential condition of reckoning with an enchanted view of nature, or with the dark pantheistic implications of naturalism that inspire anti-natural, civilized progress. Yes, I grew up as a Jew, but monotheism seems to me a straightforward mockery of human tyrants. The upshot of Judaism is mystical secular humanism, based on a disposal of anthropocentric idols (such as the image of God as a moral king or wise designer).