(April 6, 2015 at 3:12 pm)Nestor Wrote: Let's also not forget that secular values were by and large borne out of Christian values.
Perhaps by Western standards, but much of what you can find of value in the bible can be found in Eastern writings pre-dating it. On top of that, I bet you'd be hard pressed to find anything moral in the bible that the Greeks hadn't hashed out already.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
