MAYBE NOT 1500 AD

David Brooks writes again about the secularization of Western society, this time based on Charles Taylor's book, A Secular Age.  Taylor argues that society became less fundamentalist starting in 1500 and I think he's mistaken about even ordinary people, not just those who could read.  In fact, we could trace the beginnings of a secular society back to Epicurus (341-270 BC) and Lucretius (99-55 BC) in the West and Chuang-Tzu (ca. 4th Century BC) in the East. 

Previous posts on secularism here and here.