Secular 1: The separation of the sacred from ordinary public life

Secular 2: The decline of belief and the rise of atheism

Secular 3: Faith is no longer a foundational starting point

Fullness: An achievement for this lifetime, or involving something beyond it?

Modern stances of unbelief, each with their own goal (and pain points)

The king of unbelief accepts there is no overarching purpose to life

The engaged and disengaged tension of the modern stances to (un)belief

Modern naiveties: unconscious or unhelpful assumptions can go in both directions

As the tri-fold transcendence of religion erodes, exclusive humanism becomes a viable option for the masses

Introducing the Bulwarks of Belief, three pillars that held belief in place. As these began to be independently disassembled, the barriers to disbelief diminished and it became both possible and viable to question.

In the enchanted world, meaning and forces sit outside the individual. In the disenchanted world, the individual is the maker of meaning and the natural world can be reduced to matter. This is the first of the three "Bulwarks of Belief"

The disenchantment of the world of external forces and mysteries means the individual is able to become "buffered", protected from the outside and able to forge their own path through the world. So buffered in fact, that sometimes we allow ourselves to be porous for a moment just to feel something from outside of us.