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297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

The Michael Shermer Show

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Do We Need Playboy Clubs in Every City?

There's always been this debate in humanist, atheist, skeptic circles. Do we need to replace religion with something? Well, a lot of us don't really care to replace it because we weren't interested in going to church in the first place. People are desperate for meaning, and they know that the pure scientific method that hasn't, or pure science, that's not enough for us. We need something that is, this is why I think art is so important. It's so important to what it means to be a human being. The current social justice movement cannot handle the arts,. Because everything ends up looking like propaganda, rather than art.

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