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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Yuval Noah Harari thinks humans are unstoppable

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Liberalism and Humanism Are Secular Religions

I often get bemused looks from people when I say that liberalism and humanism are secular religions. The great thing about liberalism is that it acknowledges its own kind of invented nature, he says. And therefore it has a built-in mechanism to correct its own mistakes. But the problematic thing about many religions is that they don't acknowledge that they were invented by human beings or have a self-correction mechanism.

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