The Strengths and Weaknesses of Secularism

"We're turning this new technological matrix we've built, which I call the machine, into a form of religion because we need a religion," he says. "I think what we're doing is sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly we're taking this huge power we've got ... We are trying to make ourselves gods because we haven't got a God anymore." 'This is the story of human life every day,' writes David Walliams in an essay for The New York Review of Books. "'It's not a new story. It's the playing out of a very old one' - that's how it should be viewed by people who want to understand their own humanity,'" adds Walliams