Notes from an iron cage: humanism and the commodity fetish.

From: The Humanist | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Nugent, Lynne | Copyright information

I won't be burned at the stake for writing this. The inquisition is long over and, despite its best is efforts, a great religion fell to questioning and lost its absolute power. But are we really free now, we heretics who seem to walk free in this secular age? I think not; I think our souls are claimed by a new religion, one that is both too strong and too subtle to drag us off to the dungeons. This religion keeps itself invisible and keeps its victims out of our sight, too. Karl M...

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