Tom Holland on How Christianity Remade the World
Honestly with Bari Weiss
Secularism's Christian Roots
- The concept of secularism, separating religion from public life, originated in Latin Christendom.
- This division is unique to the West and arose from the Christian distinction between the cyclical nature of earthly life and the eternal bond with the divine.
- As Western societies spread this concept globally, it inadvertently imposed a Christian, and specifically Protestant, framework on other belief systems.
- Secular societies, while offering freedom of religion, don't recognize distinct religious identities outside national boundaries.
- This inadvertently pressures individuals to conform to a secular framework that is not necessarily neutral but rooted in Christianity.
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