© Jonathan Haidt
Thankfully the story didn't stop there. In his book The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt set out to answer this question by assembling decades of his and others' pain-staking research. By grounding our knowledge of morality in the evolutionary history of mankind, he ultimately sets out a new theory of morality, one that is intuitively, intellectually, and empirically robust. Today on the Truth Perspective we'll discuss his arguments and the evidence he presents while placing them in their historical context.
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For example, the modern trend towards atheism is positive in the sense that dark control structures embedded into religious activities which have been corrupted have been eroded. However, it is very negative in the sense that it has caused people to not consider the nature of existence, whether a deity or creative force exists, and what its properties are. I would gently posit that this is the most important aspect of existence - this is arguably the purpose of existence. So, while started as a movement to erode archaic power systems embedded in religion, it has also suppressed metaphysical discovery, which again and as above aids in keeping souls from choosing an orientation. Put more colloquially, it keeps people down, keeps them from knowing their true nature, and puts the brakes on discovery of the universe. It keeps them more deeply embedded in the illusion - living in "the West" as in the tradition of the Cube of Space.