Secularism is the only worldview whose members must find their main meaning within this life. All other ways of understanding the world hold that “this life is not the whole story,” but with secularism, it is. That is why all previous religions and cultures have been able to find in suffering and death a way to affirm something that matters beyond and more than just this life.46 When secular people create their meanings, however, it must be around something located inside the material world. You might be living for your family or for a political cause or for career accomplishments. To have a
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