[who_would_fardels_bear]

Materialist reductionism has been around a lot longer than just the last half of the last century.

But for a long time a good portion of the faithful were truly faithful.

Materialism only got its foothold when the "faithful" became faithless and were Christians and Jews in name only.

Imagine another religion such as Islam actually believing and acting according to their precepts, however abominable?

That just doesn't compute for scientists.

[Sir Napsalot]

I’ve heard whatever illness being described as (post-)postmodernism; nihilism; and now materialist reductionism. Same illness, different names.

It only seems in the last half of the last century the illness (almost typed silliness) became pervasive in huge swatch of general public, and not just the few so-called intellectuals.