Is Secularism dead? Religious belief is human nature, huge new study claims

Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Secularism has been promoted as the ideal throughout the 2oth century.  Naturalistic science and reason have left no room for God as the Neo-Atheists have proselytized their faith in an accidental world.  The roots of such secular thinking were nourished by the writings of Jean-Paul Sarte and Friedrich Nietzsche who was famed for coining the phrase "God is dead." 

Yet, a new academic study is claiming that humans are intrinsically transcendental, or that humans are hard-wired for religion.  Obviously this doesn't actually answer the question of whether God exists or not, and certainly doesn't that God is the Christian God, but it certainly supports Theism.   "Is Secularism dead?"

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However, if Neo-Atheists are right that God is a delusion, this study seems to reveal that religion is actually an epidemic of world-wide psychosis.


Even the rise of Post-Modernism, for all of its defects, defies the modern idea that "secularism" and a godless world is the Truth.  Instead by allowing for different perspectives of what truth is, it has once again given a voice to Theists and Christians for God's existence. 

Regardless, it would seem that  Oxford University professor Roger Trigg (co-director of the three-year Oxford-based project) rightly concludes that this study shows that "The secularization thesis of the 1960s...was hopeless." 
Researchers even found that "people who hold religious beliefs might be more likely to co-operate as part of societies."  Additional Quotes from the Researchers:

• "Attempts to suppress religion are likely to be short-lived as human thought seems to be rooted to religious concepts, such as the existence of supernatural agents or gods, and the possibility of an afterlife or pre-life."
• "There is quite a drive to think that religion is private. It isn't just a quirky interest of a few, it's basic human nature."
• "This shows that it's much more universal, prevalent, and deep-rooted. It's got to be reckoned with. You can't just pretend it isn't there."
  

 Secularism will probably never completely disappear, just as it failed to sweep religion  under the rug.  In the end, Religion is a topic that we must discuss, for it's human nature. 

Read More:

• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386533/Belief-religion-simply-universal-human-nature.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
  
• http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/12/religious-belief-is-human-nature-huge-new-study-claims/
  

The 3 year project incorporated more than 40 different studies by dozens of researchers looking at countries from China to Poland and the United States to Micronesia.