Prager: Secularism and the meaningless life

Dennis Prager has been publishing his most recent book (in progress) a chapter at a time in his weekly column. His current column is chapter 13 in the series on Judeo-Christian values. It's an important piece on secularism and the resultant void the philosophy cannot fill in the lives of its adherants:

Whatever the logical inconsistencies or theoretical arguments in either direction, the fact remains that while secular individuals can believe that their own lives have meaning, secularism by definition denies that life has meaning. The consequences have been devastating to mental health and to social order.

Among these have been increased unhappiness and depression, increased reliance on drugs and numbing entertainment to get people through life, moral confusion, belief in nonsense (such as Marxism, fascism, communism, male-female sameness, pacifism, moral equivalence of good and bad societies, and much more), and perhaps most ubiquitous, political meaning as a substitute for religious meaning.

Given that the need for meaning transcends all other human needs, its absence must create havoc individually and societally. In government, secularism is a blessing; but most everywhere else it is not.

The entire series on "Judeo-Christian Values" can be found here at Prager's website.