What the secularists forgot is that Homo sapiens is the meaning-seeking animal. If there is one thing the great institutions of the modern world do not do, it is to provide meaning. Science tells us how but not why. Technology gives us power but cannot guide us as to how to use that power. The market gives us choices but leaves us uninstructed as to how to make those choices. The liberal democratic state gives us freedom to live as we choose but on principle refuses to guide us as to how to choose.
Why is the age old question. We contemplate why things work, why the sun comes up every day, and ultimately why we exist. This is the purpose of religion, and the attempt of philosophy; to answer the question of why. Science will never answer why. It is limited. We must be willing to go beyond and into a world of faith to answer the great questions of why.
