The Challenge of Secularism

Content

• The rise of secularism and secularisation, and the views that:

  • God is an illusion and the result of wish fulfilment

  • Christianity should play no part in public life

Key Knowledge

• the views of Freud and Dawkins that society would be happier without Christianity as it is infantile, repressive and causes conflict

• the views of secular humanists that Christian belief is personal and should play no part in public life, including:

  • education and schools

  • government and the state