The secular society lives in daily violence, violence with reality. This violence shows that nihilism cannot and does not correspond to our being. But it shows also, in a very concrete way, how the secular society annihilates itself by engendering the very monsters that terrify it most and that it itself hates most: the twin monsters of fundamentalism and terrorism.
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Source: Francisco Javier Martinez, "Beyond Secular Reason," Communio 31/4 (Winter 2004), accessed February 2, 2017, http://www.secondspring.co.uk/articles/martinez.htm.
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