How the Absence of Religion Has Changed Humanity

A lot of our melodrama and self-pity comes from seeing ourselves, as a species, as standing at the center of the cosmos. We take ourselves far too seriously and would benefit from dethroning ourselves graciously.

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"The modern age is inherently anthropocentric in outlook (from anthropos, greek for human), that is, it places human beings and their experience and concerns at the centre of the hierarchy, above the claims of nature, animals, gods or the universe more broadly. We are now, in every way, in our own eyes, the centre of the show."

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