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[Field Notes] Atheism Is the Opiate of the Masses: Probing The Blind Spots of Secular Certainty
What if the worldview functioning as an opiate today is not religion, but its absence?
In this field notes episode of Inquiry, Kelly Chase examines atheism not as a private belief or philosophical conclusion, but as a very recent mass cultural formation that now functions as the default worldview of educated Western society. Beginning with Marx’s famous claim that religion is the opiate of the masses, she asks whether modern secular materialism may now be serving a similar sedating function by making vast areas of human experience feel intellectually off-limits.
From there, the episode turns…
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