Broken Altars
Howard, Thomas Albert
A popular truism derived from the Enlightenment holds that violence is somehow inherent to religion, to which political secularism offers a liberating solution. But this assumption ignores a glaring modern reality: that putatively progressive regimes committed to secularism have possessed just as much and often a vastly greater capacity for violence as those tied to a religious identity. In this book, Thomas Albert Howard presents a powerful account of the misery, deaths, and destruction visited on religious communities by secularist regimes in the 20th century. Presenting three principal forms of modern secularism that have arisen since the Enlightenment - passive secularism, combative secularism, and eliminationist secularism - Howard argues that the latter two have been especially violence-prone.
Broken Altars
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