Secularism Is Increasingly Seen as a Threat to Liberty Rather than Its Stoutest Defender

Julian Baggini thinks it has lost its secular soul.

In my opinion, the problem is that a small, rather fanatical group of people has turned secularism into a religion of its own. In many secularists’ mind, there is no room for liberty when belief in their own rationality tells them they are right to tell others how to think and act. Add to this a complete lack of self-criticism and humour and you have a bunch of religious fools.