Secularism is reduced to human judgement, and distances itself from any recourse to spiritual reference points. For this reason, it can never claim an absolute truth.
First, humans all over the world, at any given point in time, disagree both in what is logical and what 'feels good' or 'feels right'. For example, if you ask an American about human rights, you will get a very different reponse than if you asked a Chinese person. If you ask an Indonesian tribesman how important is the pursuit of money and wealth, again you would get a different answer than from an American. So how can we say that human rights are absolute, or that the pursuit of wealth is the ultimate goal of rationality, when the reason for doing so would be based on human opinions that are aggregately inconsistent?
Similiarly, over time, scientific fact and human feelings diverge. To use the example of human rights again, such 'absolutes' are actually modern phenomena. Meanwhile, facts such as the flatness of the world, the centrality of the Earth in the universe, the perfect circularity of the orbits of perfect spherical orbs, have been refuted and replaced by new 'facts'. How can we say that our current beliefs are somehow sacrosanct? All that we can say is what we infer from experience: and experience dictates that we currently hold to be true will also be refuted.
What is the answer to this diarrhea of truth? Man's wisdom will only get so far. Is it that we have currently reached an 'apex' of truth, as every generation false believes? No. Mankind cannot reach truth by itself, and as soon as it rejected 'religion' in either its sentiments or logical structures, it rejected truth - not because religion is truth, but because it flushed the baby with the bath water. By all means reject religious structures, but only for the reason that they are as man-made, and therefore as flawed, as any other earthly system. But do not reject God, for in Him, all things hold together.
There is God, and He is truth. Nobody reaches that truth without going through Christ. All other roads lead to destruction.
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